The Invisible Ladder
Subtitle: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: October 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780805038361
Subjects: Poetry - General; Young adult poetry, American; History and criticism; Juvenile Literature; Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction; Theory, etc; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Poets, American; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Biography; 20th century; American poetry
First sentence: Like most young people in the small town in which I grew up, I went through high school thinking that poetry was written in the language of earlier times, expressing flowery sentiments in ways certain to embarrass any red-blooded American boy or girl.