Who are these people labelled Gen Xer's? What lies behind the hip marketing stereotypes? What makes this generation unique? This book, and subsequent book series, seeks to answer these questions via this generation's writers. Songwriters, journalists, poets, essayists, noevellists, academics. The complexity lying beneath the cool surface is great. Visit "the world" through their eyes.
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A refreshing book of new voices.,
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This review is from: In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry : From a Generation Falsely Labeled (In Our Own Words (Marlow Peerse Weaver)) (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this book of poetry to be very refreshing. I appreciate the diversity of voices in this collection. I am confident that many of the poets included in this anthology will be our voices of the next generation. There is a lot of potential. I am interested in learning more about the poets and their backgrounds. I hope there will be a volume two.
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Wonderful collection !,
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This review is from: In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry : From a Generation Falsely Labeled (In Our Own Words (Marlow Peerse Weaver)) (Mass Market Paperback)
In Our Own Words: Generation X Poetry Marlow Weaver (Editor) 160 pages Mw Enterprises; ISBN: 0965413624This brilliant volume which contains 214 poems from 145 poets from around the world is well worth the read. Many of the poets included in the work have been previously published by A Writer's Choice Literary Journal. Marlow dug through over 4500 submissions to find the selections which give rise to the voice of the so-called X-generation. His choices were excellent, and prove to show what we all too often forget-people are not labels or stereotypes. The X Generation is comprised of varied and individual mindsets, attitudes, emotions. This anthology sings loud with a varied, vibrant, voice. I'd have preferred page numbers in the book but that is a small complaint. I think this work sets the tone for the future of poetry into the next millennium. And it serves well the point that Poetry Is Not Dead- but is a live, breathing, growing, and important part of world culture. Congratulations to all the poets included, and a big hand of applause for Mr. Weaver. Leslie Blanchard Editor A Writer's Choice Literary Journal ISSN: 1521-2319
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Mark Antony Rossi, Poet, Playwright, Poetry Book Reviewer,
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This review is from: In Our Own Words: An Anthology of Poetry : From a Generation Falsely Labeled (In Our Own Words (Marlow Peerse Weaver)) (Mass Market Paperback)
I must praise this publisher for his brave vision to compile such a poetry anthology when others are still committed to projecting upon our generation their moral failures and festering cynnicism. From the child born in the ghetto working hard to overcome her circumstances to the honourable men and women who have served in our nation's defense, this generation is bound to make a major mark on the 21st century. But we as a generation have to be strong, as exampled in these poems, to rise above the media hype and materialistic wilderness and speak our hearts and souls as only we can. "In Our Own Words" succeeds in this task by demonstrating our humanity, global literary unity and social conscience in the midst of societal breakdown, as evidenced by poems such as "Tempting Heaven: A Methodist Mediation on Rwanda" that we too can build anew and walk a clearer path to contentment.
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