Features a collection of concrete poems inspired by such objects as a football, clock, and fork.

An eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical?and not so typical?middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems. His musings cover the usual stuff, like pizza, homework, thank-you notes, and his annoying older sister. In addition, he speculates about professional wrestling for animals, wonders why no one makes scratch-and-sniff fart stickers, designs the ultimate roller coaster (complete with poisonous spiders),...

CRISIS! Dog and Cat find out the family is moving. Dog freaks out. He does NOT want to move. He goes through all the classic stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Cat tries to get him to acceptance. But Cat is fine--really she is--or is she? Dog and Cat plow through the days until moving. They eat. They nap. They argue. They take care of their owners. But can they figure out how to stop this terrible move? Dog & Cat is told in a series...

Poems that celebrate favorite things from different seasons of the year, each shaped like the subject at hand.

"Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful, the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask...

"On an autumn day, two friends play together and one teaches the other how to write concrete poems. Includes creative writing exercises to assist the reader in writing concrete poems"--Provided by publisher.

The words of these fifty-one brief poems are arranged on the pages in shapes appropriate to the subject of the poem.