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"To concerned parents everywhere who, through love and alarm, are fighting fiercely, together and alone, to bring up drug-free children. And to all government officials, from the White House to those courageous servicemen and women, marshals, agents, and the many others who are directly carrying out the war on drugs."--From page v.

"An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath ... For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell ... she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living"--