The thumping of your heart in your chest. A pit in your stomach. A blush. These are the symptoms of love sickness, and if you've ever experienced them, this book is for you.

Critically acclaimed poet and anthologist, Paul Janeczko has turned his attention to a new compilation of love poems for teens that collects the most poignant and moving musings about love from a diverse group of classic poets and writers like Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Angelou, and many more.

This is a book girls will carry with them always. They will dog-ear the pages, pass it to friends, sleep with it. And they will go back to it again and again and find in it the drama, the pain, the joy of loving.

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Gr. 8-12. For this slim anthology, Janeczko chose more than the usual Valentine's Day poems about love's first rush: "I looked for longing, too, and for heartbreak." The result is a collection that speaks about "the shades of love," including the beginning of love, mature love, love unreturned, and faded love: "It is dusty on the edges. / It is slightly rotten," writes Naomi Shihab Nye. Selections are a mix of contemporary poems as well as famous ones representing several centuries, including a Shakespearean sonnet and John Donne's "The Good Morrow." Each section begins with an excerpt from a love letter, often written by a poet, and the intimate, wild tone of the letters makes an interesting contrast to the formal, structured poems. Additional notes about the poets and poems, particularly the more challenging works, would have been welcome. But Janeczko chooses a subject that will certainly draw interest, and the combination of letters and poetry offers a fine glimpse of what poets do: make beautiful, disciplined work from their deepest, undisciplined feelings. Gillian Engberg
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