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Letting go of grief and loss by writing poetry as therapy. I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent is a book for fans of the acclaimed movie Stand and Deliver. After the death of her child, a grief-stricken psychotherapist, teacher, and writer volunteers as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for “delinquent” girls. Here, their mutual support nourishes and enriches each other, though not without large quantities of drama and recalcitrance. As Sharon and the girls share their losses through weekly writing, they came to realize their unlimited potential and poetic talents.  Healing from trauma. Healing can come in surprising ways across age and social class, as it did for both the girls and Sharon. But what happens when Sharon finally grasps that the most challenging experiences are the best teachers? Narrated in five parts, the book also contains poems written by the girls, as well as excerpts from their writing, Sharon’s son’s writing, and her own.  If you have read books such as Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, The Freedom Writers Diary, Between the World and Me, So You Want to Talk about Race, or Reviving Ophelia; you will love I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582247346449,"sku":"GOR013334981","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50396785836305,"sku":"CIN1642502138G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697757753617,"sku":"NGR9781642502138","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51042976661777,"sku":"NIN9781642502138","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52672870973713,"sku":"NLS9781642502138","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1642502138.jpg?v=1750763756"},{"product_id":"unhinged-book-sharon-charde-9781421836317","title":"Unhinged","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in\u003cem\u003e Unhinged\u003c\/em\u003e open wide the doors between love and loss, past and present, life and death. Charde teaches us that to study any subject is to reckon with its opposite: how she can choose the commitment of marriage, while wanting to keep moving; how she honors the loss of her son, a grief that still shouts like the emperor peonies\/ burning red in  her] garden, while also wanting to lasso  her] life to a more merciful anchor; how she faces her own mortality, thanking death for giving her singularity, a kind of dignity exactly when she is learning to love the fire of life. Charde's honesty is disarming: here, grief is not melodramatic but intimate--these poems teach us that to let grief open us we must let it lead us beyond what\u0026gt;s static, standard, or finite. Only then can we claim the hard-earned understanding that the life  we] have is\/ the one worth living in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Charde is not only a poet. A family therapist, a former shaman-in-training, a volunteer writing teacher to delinquent girls in a residential treatment facility, a minimally competent carpenter and devoted yoga practitioner, she is a veteran of fifty-five years of marriage to the same man. Her life as wife, mother and grandmother informs her poems as well as a memoir that will come out next year. She has been published widely in literary journals, including \u003cem\u003ePoet Lore, Upstreet, Rattle, Calyx\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePing Pong, \u003c\/em\u003eand has one full-length poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eBranch In His Hand, \u003c\/em\u003e as well as four prize-winning chapbooks and many award-winning poems. \u003cem\u003eFour Trees From Ponte Sisto\u003c\/em\u003e, an hour-long radio drama shaped from her poems was broadcast by the BC in 2012.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eShe currently continues to teach the women's writing retreats she developed twenty-five years ago and has been leading ever since. 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In these brutally honest, beautiful poems, we face the death of one who is dearly loved, and recognize, as the poet says, that grief is at least part of what you \/ will grow into. --Pat Schneider, author, Writing Alone and With Others, Oxford University Press, and founder, Amherst Writers \u0026amp; Artists.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394853146897,"sku":"CIN193521800XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054373896465,"sku":"NIN9781935218005","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53592629510417,"sku":"GOR011668849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193521800X.jpg?v=1761387565"},{"product_id":"glass-is-already-broken-book-sharon-charde-9781421837062","title":"The Glass Is Already Broken","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Glass is Already Broken\u003c\/em\u003e, a mother navigates the decades-old loss of her son: I keep trying to feel who I was before you \/ died. Listen to music I listened to then, Beatles, \/ The Band, Rolling Stones, she insists, before admitting I can't \/ put the snake's skin back around its flesh, \/ the snow back into the sky. But what she \u003cem\u003ecan\u003c\/em\u003e do is its own wonder: she shatters open a life centered on marriage and motherhood to reclaim her primal identity underneath. She revisits her choices. These poems grieve but they also reckon, bargain, riddle and joke, lust and croon, with every mode accented by a fine-hewed lineation. Reading these poems, and re-reading them, wrecked me in the best possible way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Sandra Beasley, author of\u003cem\u003e Made to Explode\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Charde has six published poetry collections, taught incarcerated girls poetry for sixteen years, and wrote a memoir about that work, I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent, published by Mango in June 2020. She has received many awards for her poetry, seven Pushcart nominations and numerous fellowships, among them Yaddo, Ucross and MacDowell. 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