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I Am Wings: Poems About Love

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It's rare that poems about love, especially teenage love or first love escape being really cheesy. Most of the great love poems that we hearken to were written well before this century and most were written the century before that. Love, as a concept, as a subject of poetry has become very tired, old, used and cliché. This is unfortunate considering that it's one of the most profound, complex, and beautiful elements of human life.

All that is to say that this novel is not much of an exception on being cheesy, but past the verse itself, the story being weaved from poem to poem creates something somewhat interesting and unique. Also, I do appreciate poetry written for the young adult genre, because there is very little of it. This book is a quick light read that I recommend to those who want to reminisce about first love or look toward it. It's lighthearted and fun, much like the way first love feels.

-Lindsey Miller, [...]

I have just read I am Wings and I thought that it was a great book. It is full of love stories about getting together and going through the heartbreak of breaking up but still getting through the heartbreak. I think that it was a good book because it taught you about love and how it feels to be in love from when you were a kid to when you were full grown and all the memories that you and your loved ones had.

I read this book with my Language Arts class and have an absolutely fabulous teacher. Every day in class we have a quote of the day and then do a "quick write". After we do this we read one of Ralph Fletcher's I Am Wings: Stories of Love and evaluate based on the way the words are layed out on the pages and talking about it out loud; figure out what the poem means. It is a very realistic book and challenges young and old alike to think about what the author is trying to say and talks in depth about the typical middle school dating relationship. As my class got into the book I found myself looking forward to the poems and the saga of Lea and his girlfriend. Great book for anyone. ~Amanda~