Arnold Adoff writes from inside the hearts and heads of young Americans. Contemporary but timeless, these poems are sparkling explosions of soul that capture the essence of adolescent experience, from hard loving to hard-hearted nose-dive flops. They resound with the pounding best of what's to come.

"Quivers and quakes of teen pangs and pleasures are trapped, then traced, in Slow Dance Heart Break Blues. Zits will never be the same, READ IT!" Robert Cormier

"There are always good things happening throughout the year: Labor Day picnics; Halloween candy; Thanksgiving dinners; Christmas presents; Valentine cards; Easter eggs with lots of colors; and in some very special years a new book of poems by Arnold Adoff! Slow Dance Heart Break Blues is a treasure to be tasted, savored, shared, tasted, savored yet again and again." Nikki Giovanni

"Visually wild and whirling, Arnold Adoff's new poems are rich in rhymes straight out of rap and in heavy-metal rhythms. Here is valuable reading for people who want to understand teens, and for all teens who want to understand one another." X. J. Kennedy

"Arnold Adoff writes that 'there is only one music.' It is in his words running like rivers, spouting like fountains, and speaking directly to young, hungry, angry, joyous, clamorous hearts." Karla Kuskin.

Arnold Adoff is the award-winning author of more than thirty books of poetry for children and young adults.

At This Age,
This Time
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