Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry [Paperback]

Sara Bynoe (Editor)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (Mar 10 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312334745
ISBN-13: 978-0312334741
Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #487,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #82 in Books > Entertainment > Humour > Limericks & Humourous Verse
- #83 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Limericks & Humourous Verse

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Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry is the first, the best, and the biggest collection of teen angst poetry ever to be published. Inspired by the popularity of her interactive website, editor Sara Bynoe has compiled the definitive teen angst reader. Divided into 12 categories, including I am Alone and No One Understands My Pain and Obvious Metaphors, this book is for anyone who has ever written truly terrible, meditative, or self-indulgent poetry. Actually, this book is for anyone who survived being a teenager.

All of the poets featured in this collection are now adults, living happy, angst-free lives. However, for this special book, they are willing to reveal excerpts from their old tattered notebooks or leather bound journals. Along with the poems, each poet has included a short introduction, giving background information for each work. As Sara Bynoe says, looking back on teen angst poetry brings people together in a "poetry reading meets stand-up comedy meets AA" sort of way.

About the Author

23-year-old Sara Bynoe lives in Vancouver, where she is an actress and a recovering teen angst poet.

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Amazon.com: 3.8 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, Mar 7 2006

By Silura Camara - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry (Paperback)

Far from being the promised "pee your pants laugh fest", Teen Angst is an utterly generic - and bland - collection. Although one of two of the poems evoked a grin, for the most part, these are thoroughly unremarkable, and a far cry from being "so bad they're good". I found the blurbs leading into each of the entries much more interesting than the actual poems, establishing the context in which each was written, but still felt as though something was missing. Great idea, but strangely unfunny.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A Not-So-Funny Attempt, Jan 3 2008

By MG "Not impressed" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry (Paperback)

I was actually looking forward to getting Teen Angst in the mail, but after reading through it, I was disappointed. I found only a few poems to be even remotely funny: 4 exactly. The rest were just really bad poems. The introductions to the poems were often humorous, but the individual poems consist of hardly any humor. I felt as though I was grading an 8th grade English class' poetry assignments. Of course, that's what some of these poems are...Certainly NOT the pee-in-your-pants laughing I was promised.

5.0 out of 5 stars Terribly Funny, Aug 17 2007

By Libra "MYK" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry (Paperback)

The first and definitive work of its kind, this anthology contains poems written in the heat of intense adolescent emotional distress and introduced by the now angst-free adults who wrote the poems. Although these authors lack the literary pretentiousness enjoyed by true poetasters, their work is equally terrible. Arrangement is by such adolescent-appropriate topics as Breakups--I Will Never Love Again Poems and I Am Alone--and No One Understand My Pain Poems, etc.

One of the best parts of this truly comical collection is editor Sara Bynoe's eight step plan for teens interested in writing angst poetry. Bynoe's anthology was inspired by content from her website.

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