As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
(3)
YA
These discrete poems are linked by their themes of love and heartbreak and by their putative authorship by high school classmates. Resolutely confessional, the poems take in all manner of love, and a range of forms helps vary the tone. Some of the poems are too long--as is the book as a whole--but Levithan has a fluent, lyrical voice, well worth hearing.