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poem poorly written is the first chapbook written by award-winning underground poet leah angstman. Young and emotional, this is a book of poetry printed from the pages of leah’s journal at the age of seventeen after the death of her best friend, Christopher J. Kranz. Written between July 1997 and January 1998, the poems are raw and heartbreaking – heartfelt emotion spilling out onto the page, mostly in first draft form with no rewrite, and often rhyming instead of the usual freeform of her later work. The book showcases all the sad, memorable, and honest poetry in the grieving moments of loss; as well as showing that – even in a time of great sorrow – strength, beauty, and understanding come in many forms and show through the pain from somewhere deeper than anyone thought imaginable. This book is leah’s growing up, her coming of age in the written word and in the public face of strangers.

Notes from the author: “poem poorly written is young. It is a book by a young girl, with the emotions of a young girl. When I was seventeen, I was crazy, introverted, lonely, insightful, lost, and grieving. Much like any other teenager, only I spoke less and perhaps thought a lot more. The ska/ska-punk revival was just starting to die out, my friends’ and my bands were all breaking up, my senior friends were graduating high school and moving on, and I was getting involved heavily in politics and the world of zines. My best friend and absolute love of my life died ten days before my seventeeth birthday; the subsequent months that followed are chronicled in the poems of this chapbook, lifted from my journal, placed here in the order they were written. The poems were quick, spilling forth in waves, words I wanted to say to the people who weren’t listening or whom were no longer there to listen, pain I needed to write down and get out of my head and body, lest it consume me in thought. And although this book is unlike any other book I have written or will ever write since, it is perhaps the most brutally honest and emotional, with very little conscious thought or rewrite; and it is definitely a moving tribute to a lost love that will affect anyone who has lost someone too young and too soon.” added on 2008-12-20
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