Writing in the Asylum: Student Poets in City Schools
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Book Description
Jennifer McCormick opens a fascinating window on the lives of young women, showing how poetry can create a sense of security and self-esteem in the often sterile, violent, and oppressive environment of an urban high school. The students' poetry is at once disturbing and beautiful, hopeful and bleak, and McCormick's depiction of the increasingly institutionalized nature of urban schools is riveting... More
Book Information
Publisher | Teachers College Press |
Binding | Hardcover (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 143 |
ISBN-10 | 0807744905 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0807744901 |
Publication Date | 01/01/2004 |
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About Michelle Fine (Foreword) : Michelle Fine is a published author and an editor. Some of the published credits of Michelle Fine include Standards-Based Mathematics Assessment in Middle School: Rethinking Classroom Practice (Ways o... more
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