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I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine : Poems for Young Feminists by Carol Ann Duffy (1997, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805055452

ISBN-139780805055450

eBay Product ID (ePID)791680

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Book TitleI Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine : Poems for Young Feminists

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicWomen Authors, Girls & Women, Poetry / General

IllustratorYes, Rafferty, Trisha

GenrePoetry, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorCarol Ann Duffy

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThese are witty, sophisticated, non-messagey poems. They are angry, funny, tender, dramatic, full of surprise and conflict and self-mockery. Candid about failure and betrayal, they play with language, role, and stereotype . . . [They] open up the range of love and family., "This excellent volume features the work of women, known and unknown, from around the world . . . Buy this book for someone who thinks she doesn't like poetry."-- The Bloomsbury Review "These are witty, sophisticated, non-messagey poems. They are angry, funny, tender, dramatic, full of surprise and conflict and self-mockery. Candid about failure and betrayal, they play with language, role, and stereotype . . . [They] open up the range of love and family."-- Booklist (starred review), This excellent volume features the work of women, known and unknown, from around the world . . . Buy this book for someone who thinks she doesn't like poetry., "This excellent volume features the work of women, known and unknown, from around the world . . . Buy this book for someone who thinks she doesn't like poetry."--The Bloomsbury Review "These are witty, sophisticated, non-messagey poems. They are angry, funny, tender, dramatic, full of surprise and conflict and self-mockery. Candid about failure and betrayal, they play with language, role, and stereotype . . . [They] open up the range of love and family."--Booklist (starred review), "This excellent volume features the work of women, known and unknown, from around the world . . . Buy this book for someone who thinks she doesn't like poetry." -- The Bloomsbury Review "These are witty, sophisticated, non-messagey poems. They are angry, funny, tender, dramatic, full of surprise and conflict and self-mockery. Candid about failure and betrayal, they play with language, role, and stereotype . . . [They] open up the range of love and family." -- Booklist (starred review)

Grade FromFourth Grade

Grade ToSeventh Grade

Dewey Decimal808.8193522

Table Of ContentValentine Carol Ann Duffy For an Unborn Baby Janet Shepperson Lullaby Rosemary Norman Before the Fall Rachel McAlpine from Welsh Espionage Gwyneth Lewis School Report Carole Paine Loch, Black Rock, Beautiful Boat Meg Campbell Indian Children Speak Juanita Bell natural high Jean Binta Breeze Happy Birthday from Bennigans Julie O'Callaghan Her First Toy Sylvia Parker Latch-key Child Valerie Sinason school days Jean Binta Breeze Vestment Ana Blandiana A Happy Childhood Eulalia Bernard Grown Up Julie O'Callaghan Accomplishments Cynthia MacDonald The Name of the Game Jenny Craig shopping Jenny Boult Sally Phoebe Hesketh Peck's Bad Boys Judi Benson Good Girls Irene Rawnsley Don't Smack Me Again Deborah Randall This Cat Gabriela Pearse Advice to a Teenage Daughter Isobel Thrilling Thirteen Julie Kane Hanging Fire Audre Lorde Turning Sixteen Máighréad Medbh Bette Davis Jackie Kay Aunt Leaf Mary Oliver The Nature Lesson Marjorie Baldwin The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Elaine Cusack Short Thought Elaine Cusack Piccadilly Line Carole Satyamurti Skanking Englishman Between Trains Grace Nichols Self-portraits 0 Elma Mitchell For Heidi with Blue Hair Fleur Adcock Sex, Politics and Religion Lavinia Greenlaw Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou Blind Girl Jane Cooper Disabled Swimmers' Night Carole Satyamurti Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person Nina Cassian Didactica Nova Grete Tartler I am Happy Delfy Gochez Fernandez Remember Alice Walker The Class Game Mary Casey Yuh Hear Bout? Valerie Bloom We Can Always Nellie Wong A Short Note on Schoolgirls Alison Campbell Women Laughing U. A. Fanthorpe Whatweakersex? Fran Landsman Sly Autumn Rita Ann Higgins You Held Out the Light Gwendolyn MacEwen I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine Liz Lochhead Small Words Fiona Hall Echo and Narcissus Gerda Mayer Sweet Sixteen Eunice de Souza Magnetic Wendy Cope Song (October 1969) Kath Fraser Space-age Lover Jennifer Brice A Simple Story Gwen Harwood The Juggler's Wife Cicely Herbert Lovesick Carol Ann Duffy Chat Show Vicki Raymond To the Spider in the Crevice Behind the Toilet Door Janet Sutherland A Woman's Work Dorothy Nimmo Frying Tonight Julie O'Callaghan Monument Felice Holman At a Cannery Nishio Katsuko The Women of Mumbles Head Maura Dooley Unravelling Vicki Feaver Being a Student U. A. Fanthorpe The Genie in the Jar Nikki Giovanni Scarecrow Stef Pixner A Post Card from Greece Jane Whittle Holiday Girls Vicki Raymond Things Fleur Adcock Anno Wreck Sick 0 Magi Gibson The Fat Black Woman's Motto on Her Bedroom Door Grace Nichols The Fat Lady's Request Joyce la Verne The Concerned Adolescent Wendy Cope Mollie Haggarty Dorothy Barnham Rules for Beginners Carol Rumens The Way We Live Kathleen Jamie Son Sharon Olds Index of Authors Acknowledgements

Edition DescriptionReprint,Revised edition

SynopsisWith readable, richly varied contributions from women poets both famous and unknown, both young and old, both English-speaking and in-translation, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists is a timely, unique, and exceptionally inclusive anthology. Edited by Carol Ann Duffy, herself a British feminist poet of much renown, this collection of insights and truths will appeal equally to poetry buffs and poetry novices, be they students or general readers.

LC Classification NumberPN6109.9