20th century youth poetry
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child authorship
child perspectives on race and politics
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childhood and creative agency
childhood as political voice
children as literary creators
children in American literary studies
children's concepts of time
children's contribution to poetry
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children's perspectives on injustice
children's responses to injustice
children's role in cultural discourse
children's role in social commentary
children's views of justice in poetry
children's voices in literature
contemporary child poets
creative agency of young people
cultural bias against child writers
cultural respect for youth writing
early poetic talent
empowering young writers
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fostering young literary voices
Gwendolyn Brooks mentorship
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impact of mentorship on young poets
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June Jordan youth advocacy
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poetry education and youth
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racial awareness in child poetry
reclaiming juvenilia
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social realities through young eyes
student-written poems
studying youth-authored texts
supporting child authors
time and memory in youth-authored poems
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uncovering hidden young voices
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young people and artistic agency
young people shaping literary history
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Product details
- ISBN 9781625344496
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2019
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases that frame young people as intellectually and artistically immature, these works are often excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that youth-composed poems should be read as literary works in their own right -- works that are deserving of greater respect in literary culture.
Time for Childhoods presents a selection of striking twentieth-and twenty-first-century American poetry written by young people, and highlights how young poets imagined and shaped time for their own poetic purposes. Through close engagement with archival materials, as well as select interviews and correspondence with adult mentors, Conrad discerns how young writers figured social realities and political and racial injustices, and discusses what important advocates such as Gwendolyn Brooks and June Jordan can teach us about supporting the agency of young poets. This essential study demonstrates that young poets have much to contribute to ongoing conversations about time and power.
Rachel Conrad is professor of childhood studies at Hampshire College.
