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Mistakes That Made Us, The: Confessions from Twenty Poets
edited by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
Illustrator: Mercè López
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books/Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-7284-9210-0
Keywords: Poetry-overestimation, uawareness, embarrassment, shame, regret, remorse, acceptance disobedience, rule-breaking
Using a variety of poetic forms, renowned poets from Margarita Engle to Jane Yolen divulge their early mistakes. Detailed insets provide the writers' accounts of lessons learned. Emotive colorful illustrations.