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Title
The secret of me / Meg Kearney.
Author
ISBN
0892553227 (alk. paper)
9780892553228 (alk. paper)
9780892553365 (pbk.)
0892553367 (pbk.)
9780892553228 (alk. paper)
9780892553365 (pbk.)
0892553367 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Persea Books, c2005.
Description
136 p. ; 22 cm.
Exhibited
2006 Poets House Showcase.
Call Number
PZ7.5.K43 Se 2005
Summary
While trying to find her place within her adoptive family and within the wider world, fourteen-year-old Lizzie reveals her secret wishes and fears in a collection of blues poems, list poems, sonnets, sestinas, and free verse. Includes a guide to poetic forms.
Note
"A Karen and Michael Braziller book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134).
Formatted Contents Note
How I arrived
Family portrait
Two mothers
Empty list poem
What I remember: summer
Self-portrait
What I want
Sense of smell
Reading my poem "what I want" to Mom
Broken place
Irish chowder
What happened to Cathy (and me) on the playground in third grade
My new "best friend"
Word pictures of Kate & Bob
Slumber party
What I remember: fall
Wave
Phone call stories
Cathy's story
Jan tells her story
Broken place II
Parents night at New Hook High School: the uncensored report
E-love
Dumb
What sisters are for
Friends
Another one of us
Adopt a useless blob (signs I've spotted)
Crossing our hearts in the dark
History lesson
Different
E-love gone bad
Food fight
Box
Love sick
What I remember: winter
Searching sestina
Taboo subject
Five: home game
Wishing
What I remember: Christmas
Bad news, good news
Mistakes
More advice about searching
Crazy love pantoum
Secret's out at dinner
What to wear to the dance? I worry and Kate gives advice
Dance
Health lesson
Matter of loyalty
Cathy's best advice
What I remember: spring
After Peter meets my family
Sharing secrets at James Bard State Park
Bird
Meeting the family of Peter Robert Woodward IV
Why not
When I was little
I'm American
Debating the secrets
Girl talk
Kind of saviors
Broken place III
Cure for the blues
Late spring cleaning
Life lessons
Key
Good student
Summer job blues
Widening the circle
Two of me
Notes for a letter I might write someday
In my room, I read Dad a poem
Afterword
Guide to this book's poetics
Some poems Lizzie loves
Cows at night by Hayden Carruth
Homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton
Victims of the latest dance craze by Cornelius Eady
Names of horses by Donald Hall
Cinderella by Anne Sexton
Song of myself (excerpts) by Walt Whitman
Recommended books about poetry
Recommended books about adoption
Acknowledgments.
Family portrait
Two mothers
Empty list poem
What I remember: summer
Self-portrait
What I want
Sense of smell
Reading my poem "what I want" to Mom
Broken place
Irish chowder
What happened to Cathy (and me) on the playground in third grade
My new "best friend"
Word pictures of Kate & Bob
Slumber party
What I remember: fall
Wave
Phone call stories
Cathy's story
Jan tells her story
Broken place II
Parents night at New Hook High School: the uncensored report
E-love
Dumb
What sisters are for
Friends
Another one of us
Adopt a useless blob (signs I've spotted)
Crossing our hearts in the dark
History lesson
Different
E-love gone bad
Food fight
Box
Love sick
What I remember: winter
Searching sestina
Taboo subject
Five: home game
Wishing
What I remember: Christmas
Bad news, good news
Mistakes
More advice about searching
Crazy love pantoum
Secret's out at dinner
What to wear to the dance? I worry and Kate gives advice
Dance
Health lesson
Matter of loyalty
Cathy's best advice
What I remember: spring
After Peter meets my family
Sharing secrets at James Bard State Park
Bird
Meeting the family of Peter Robert Woodward IV
Why not
When I was little
I'm American
Debating the secrets
Girl talk
Kind of saviors
Broken place III
Cure for the blues
Late spring cleaning
Life lessons
Key
Good student
Summer job blues
Widening the circle
Two of me
Notes for a letter I might write someday
In my room, I read Dad a poem
Afterword
Guide to this book's poetics
Some poems Lizzie loves
Cows at night by Hayden Carruth
Homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton
Victims of the latest dance craze by Cornelius Eady
Names of horses by Donald Hall
Cinderella by Anne Sexton
Song of myself (excerpts) by Walt Whitman
Recommended books about poetry
Recommended books about adoption
Acknowledgments.
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