"Apologies to an Apple" is a collection of poems by eleven-year-old poet Maya Ganesan. Available only from www.mayaganesan.com.
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Sep 30, 2009
Serena
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Apologies to an Apple by Maya Ganesan is a breath of fresh air in contemporary poetry. At eleven years old, Maya has a crisp style and is very observant and critical. Her poems do not criticize overtly, like some poets that tend to hammer their messages home.
"They see the horizon, a smoky gold line
over the sea,
and call it names like faraway and
we'll-never-reach-there.
To them,
horizon is a dream" (From Ash-Colored, pg. 10)
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"They see the horizon, a smoky gold line
over the sea,
and call it names like faraway and
we'll-never-reach-there.
To them,
horizon is a dream" (From Ash-Colored, pg. 10)
In these s More...
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Aug 07, 2011
Amanda
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This is my first book of poetry in the six I am trying to read in 2010. It’s a short slip of a book but I still spread it out over a few weeks, simply because I know next to nothing about poetry and have a difficult time reading it. For all my troubles, though, Apologies to an Apple was remarkably easy to understand. It’s not that the poetry was that much more simple than other poetry I’ve read in the past, but it was clear and relatable. I think that’s what made the differe More...
This is my first book of poetry in the six I am trying to read in 2010. It’s a short slip of a book but I still spread it out over a few weeks, simply because I know next to nothing about poetry and have a difficult time reading it. For all my troubles, though, Apologies to an Apple was remarkably easy to understand. It’s not that the poetry was that much more simple than other poetry I’ve read in the past, but it was clear and relatable. I think that’s what made the differe More...
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