Love: Selected Poems by e.e. cummings
I picked this book as a quick read. Unfortunately, I wasn’t moved by the poems. The images dominated and the subject matter was boring. I couldn’t maintain any interest in this book. Rather than reading this book, I would suggest picking up anything by Ellen Hopkin (her stuff is more free-verse though), anything by Maya Angelou’s I Know Why A Cage Bird Sings, Nikki Grimes’ Bronx Masquerade or Jazmin’s Notebook, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, anything by Robert Frost (he’s my favorite), Nikki Giovanni’s Love Poems (I first read her poems in junior high), Karen Hesse’s Out of Dust or Tupac Shakur’s The Rose that Grew From Concrete.
