Full name: Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems

Author: John Grandits Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry, Young adult, Humor Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618568604 9780618851324 0618568603 0618851321

A 15-year-old girl named Jessie voices typical--and not so typical--teenage concerns in this unique, hilarious collection of poems. Her musings about trying out new makeup and hairstyles, playing volleyball and cello, and dealing with her annoying younger brother are never boring or predictable. Who else do you know who designs her own clothes and writes poetry to her cat? Jessie's a girl with strong opinions, and she isn't shy about sharing them. Her funny, sarcastic take on high school life is revealed through concrete poetry: words, ideas, type, and design that combine to make pictures and patterns. The poems are inventive, irreverent, irresistible, and full of surprises--just like Jessie--and the playful layout and ingenious graphics extend the wry humor. Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Ludie's Life by Cynthia Rylant Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith Spinning Through the Universe by Helen Frost Jimi & Me by Jaime Adoff Split Image by Mel Glenn