April!

Oh my gosh!  It’s almost April, which also means Poetry Month!!!! Yay!!!!!  I will be participating in NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month).

To kick of the start of the season, (early) I picked up Dizzy In Your Eyes: Poems about Love by Pat Mora.

Synopsis:
Beloved children’s book author and speaker Pat Mora has written an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart’s desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses.

Review:

I have mixed feelings about poetry books,  (Not books written in poetry)  because you can love one poem, and hate the next, which I found to often happen in this book.  However, I did love the demonstration and explantion about all the different forms of poetry used; I’ve been reading poetry for years, and even found a new format.  So that was nice.

Overall the poetry was very well written, just that some were better than others.