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Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love
Beloved children's book author and speaker Pat Mora has written an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart’s the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses.
Also included are the author’s footnotes on the various types of poetic forms used throughout to help demystify poetry and showcase its accessibility, which makes this a perfect classroom tool for teachers as well as an inspiration to readers who may wish to try their own hand at writing.
Also included are the author’s footnotes on the various types of poetic forms used throughout to help demystify poetry and showcase its accessibility, which makes this a perfect classroom tool for teachers as well as an inspiration to readers who may wish to try their own hand at writing.
165 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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Pat Mora
86 books97 followersPat Mora (born 1942) is a female Mexican-American author and poet. Pat Mora was born in El Paso, Texas. She is married and has 3 grown children.
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August 11, 2018
Wonderful book of poems that deals with both design and content; even though marked as a poetry for children there is much here for adults - and the child still inside us.
May 9, 2012
Stephanie Jones
Poetry
I cannot help it. I am IN LOVE with love, and this collection of poems made me remember why. I have always been a hopeless romantic and loved experiencing love and seeing how it affects the world in so many ways. Pat Mora takes her readers through the four stages of love: the moment it happens, the pain love can bring, the healing process, and finding a way and reason to open your heart again to love. This book definitely took me back to a place and time when I first experienced all of these feelings and how I fell in love for the last time with my future husband. It also caused me to relive the agony of my first heartbreak and finding the courage to move on and love again. I enjoy anything written about love, so this collection was very entertaining. It was nice to go back down memory lane and reminisce on how love has impacted my life.
Poetry
I cannot help it. I am IN LOVE with love, and this collection of poems made me remember why. I have always been a hopeless romantic and loved experiencing love and seeing how it affects the world in so many ways. Pat Mora takes her readers through the four stages of love: the moment it happens, the pain love can bring, the healing process, and finding a way and reason to open your heart again to love. This book definitely took me back to a place and time when I first experienced all of these feelings and how I fell in love for the last time with my future husband. It also caused me to relive the agony of my first heartbreak and finding the courage to move on and love again. I enjoy anything written about love, so this collection was very entertaining. It was nice to go back down memory lane and reminisce on how love has impacted my life.
September 21, 2013
This fun collection of love-themed poetry by award-winning Latina author and literacy activist/advocate Pat Mora goes down bittersweet, the way love does. Poems like "Weird", "First Time", and"Back Then" capture the ecstatic thrill of puppy-love and admiration - the "in-love" experience - with economy, yet speak clearly, evoking youthful memories. Also included are lyrics that examine a tougher love: "Please" calls to a loved one who is incarcerated, "Broken Home?" sings heavy-hearted of experiencing the divorce of parents and that first weekend at Dad's new empty apartment, and in "Old Love" we see an uncle, hands outstretched to heaven, crying for his lost wife at her funeral. But it is the voice of the gawky uncertainty of love seeking identity - the teen perspective on love - that is here the most poignant. Poems like "Mirrors", "Kissing" and "Pressure" speak directly to their own particular brand of storm with graceful notes. My personal favorite is "Lonely Day" in which the dress of a beloved, swaying in the breeze on a hanger, is the symbol of love. Swoon.
This collection is powerful, and best suited for middle school. Never have I had students BEG me to read more poetry before reading this to them! I read selections from it to my 8th grade class (starting with "Kissing") and they all sat still, hanging on every word. Its infusion of (specifically, but not exclusively) Latino cultural references make it a great mentor text for ELL classrooms. Mora's inclusion of footnotes on the various poetic forms used throughout is also helpful in an instructional sense, a great feature. Its best feature, to be sure, is its universality; there's something for every adolescent to connect to in this book.
This collection is powerful, and best suited for middle school. Never have I had students BEG me to read more poetry before reading this to them! I read selections from it to my 8th grade class (starting with "Kissing") and they all sat still, hanging on every word. Its infusion of (specifically, but not exclusively) Latino cultural references make it a great mentor text for ELL classrooms. Mora's inclusion of footnotes on the various poetic forms used throughout is also helpful in an instructional sense, a great feature. Its best feature, to be sure, is its universality; there's something for every adolescent to connect to in this book.
September 29, 2013
Pat Mora writes this book of poetry about all different types of love. Mora writes a letter to her readers and explains that she "started out writing free-verse without counting syllables or stresses." Her editor recommended to her that she add a Haiku or Sonnet to show readers some challenges that this types of poems can create. Mora ends up writing a Clerihew as her first poem and uses her own name as the first line. She explains to the reader what a Clerihew is.
Her poems tackle common themes of love and includes the Spanish language uniquely woven into them. She writes about pets, family, first love and an encounter with someone that does not speak Spanish as a non-English speaker and their desired attempt to communicate. It was very cute. She also writes a poem about her grandmother and grandfather's courting experience.
As a lover of poetry when I was in my middle school experience, I would have loved to have read this book. I remember writing a lot and often checked out books on poetry. Often, I found poems that were a bit more serious or mature for my age and I feel that this book tackles a commonly felt feeling in a suitable way for teenagers!
Her poems tackle common themes of love and includes the Spanish language uniquely woven into them. She writes about pets, family, first love and an encounter with someone that does not speak Spanish as a non-English speaker and their desired attempt to communicate. It was very cute. She also writes a poem about her grandmother and grandfather's courting experience.
As a lover of poetry when I was in my middle school experience, I would have loved to have read this book. I remember writing a lot and often checked out books on poetry. Often, I found poems that were a bit more serious or mature for my age and I feel that this book tackles a commonly felt feeling in a suitable way for teenagers!
May 5, 2012
Poetry
Pat Mora’s Dizzy in Your Love is a breath of fresh air. A collection of 50 poems that are mostly about the joy and excitement that is teenage love. There is an abundance of innocence and feeling “twitterpated”. There is rush of energy and giggles, along with sharing stolen moments and then the bittersweet loss of young love. Mora’s poetry is perfect for tweens and teens, both private reading and classroom discussion. Everyone has experienced all kinds of love and Mora does not focus on a single kind of experience, but rather all different types. She includes verses of Spanish woven into some of the poems, along with the entire spectrum of love. Dizzy in Your Love is a sweet surprise of a read.
Pat Mora’s Dizzy in Your Love is a breath of fresh air. A collection of 50 poems that are mostly about the joy and excitement that is teenage love. There is an abundance of innocence and feeling “twitterpated”. There is rush of energy and giggles, along with sharing stolen moments and then the bittersweet loss of young love. Mora’s poetry is perfect for tweens and teens, both private reading and classroom discussion. Everyone has experienced all kinds of love and Mora does not focus on a single kind of experience, but rather all different types. She includes verses of Spanish woven into some of the poems, along with the entire spectrum of love. Dizzy in Your Love is a sweet surprise of a read.
March 4, 2023
Some of the poems felt a bit too clunky and juvenile, which detracted from my enjoyment of the books. Even though it’s marked as a young adult book, it still struck me as overly simplistic and watered down, but maybe that’s also because I’ve been writing very raw, honest poetry ever since I was a teenager. I also couldn’t really tell if the poems were based on the author’s real-life experiences or not, something I would have been curious to know.
One thing I did like, is the footnotes, which gave definitions for different forms and styles of poetry, such as sonnet and pantoums — it wasn’t all free verse. I’m excited to try writing in some of those formats on my own eventually :)
One thing I did like, is the footnotes, which gave definitions for different forms and styles of poetry, such as sonnet and pantoums — it wasn’t all free verse. I’m excited to try writing in some of those formats on my own eventually :)
March 22, 2013
I have mixed feelings about poetry books, (Not books written in poetry) because you can love one poem, and hate the next, which I found to often happen in this book. However, I did love the demonstration and explantion about all the different forms of poetry used; I've been reading poetry for years, and even found a new format. So that was nice.
Overall the poetry was very well written, just that some were better than others.
Overall the poetry was very well written, just that some were better than others.
February 7, 2014
The collection of poems is aimed at the young adult audience, but can be appreciated by all. My personal favorites: Far away, about an aging grandparent; Our private rhyme, about the death of a spouse, partner, etc. (interpretation of reader), Four-letter word, a love poem; Ode to teachers, a salute to the importance a teachers can make to an insecure student's life. A really rewarding collection, stirring feelings of humor, insecurity, doubtfulness, pensiveness, hopefulness, passion.
April 28, 2016
Awkward teenage poems about love. "Dizzy in Your Eyes," by Pat Mora is a book of poems about teenage love. The book uses humor to pull the reader in, and makes them want to read more. But right as your laughing uncontrollably, it will bring up a poem that uses emotion to end that, and make you want to read on.
I'd recommend this book to teenagers or young adults who want to know what awkward love is like.
I'd recommend this book to teenagers or young adults who want to know what awkward love is like.
December 14, 2013
On Guard
"I know how
to build fences.
I've built my borders
for years.
Routinely, I repair
attempted entries
into
my space.
Everyone is suspect,
gray-haired women,
a child's hand
reaching in,
people disguised
as rocks,
all possible invasions.
Don't be deceived:
I savor
my isolation,
my dark interior.
Silence, please..." -Pat Mora(p. 63)
"I know how
to build fences.
I've built my borders
for years.
Routinely, I repair
attempted entries
into
my space.
Everyone is suspect,
gray-haired women,
a child's hand
reaching in,
people disguised
as rocks,
all possible invasions.
Don't be deceived:
I savor
my isolation,
my dark interior.
Silence, please..." -Pat Mora(p. 63)
November 9, 2014
I met Pat Mora in person while she read these selections aloud to the core group of us. They're rather beautiful and as someone who abhors poetry, I found myself there for class and delighted to hear these in her reading. She's an amazingly creative poet and I went ahead, to show my support, purchased a copy and asked her to sign it.
March 1, 2017
Some of these poems are fantastic! They speak of love in all it's forms, not just the teenaged angsty kind. The poem about her mother and grandmother made me cry.
March 31, 2018
This was a cute and fun read! I found myself finishing it on my lunch break at work today because I didn’t want to wait until I got home. I really enjoyed how the author gave us little descriptions of different types of poems that were in this collection
May 3, 2020
In this collection of poems, each has a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart’s desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these original poems will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs will journey through the mind of the reader.
Dizzy In Your Eyes will resonate deeply with middle school students. Middle school is when students are grappling with complex emotions, including love. To put it simply, love is beyond complicated and this series of poems will help students, who are trying to figure out their emotions, relate to one of the fifty teen poets who are going through a similar exploration as they are. This fits right into perspective because each poem has a different author and gives their point of view and perspectives on what love is and the issues that come head-on when processing love.
This collection of poems is about expressions and how the narrators grapple with how to display particular ones. A strategy to replicate a similar scenario found in the text, is students create a "Facebook" (Galagher 73) for one of the narrators. Students will be able to put themselves in the POV of one of the narrators and create a mock Facebook page that resembles the emotions the character is going through. Along with creating a bio and posts, students will also post pictures that resemble the character and explain how each post relates back to the character. This strategy helps further students' understanding of POV and perspective in a creative and fun way.
Dizzy In Your Eyes will resonate deeply with middle school students. Middle school is when students are grappling with complex emotions, including love. To put it simply, love is beyond complicated and this series of poems will help students, who are trying to figure out their emotions, relate to one of the fifty teen poets who are going through a similar exploration as they are. This fits right into perspective because each poem has a different author and gives their point of view and perspectives on what love is and the issues that come head-on when processing love.
This collection of poems is about expressions and how the narrators grapple with how to display particular ones. A strategy to replicate a similar scenario found in the text, is students create a "Facebook" (Galagher 73) for one of the narrators. Students will be able to put themselves in the POV of one of the narrators and create a mock Facebook page that resembles the emotions the character is going through. Along with creating a bio and posts, students will also post pictures that resemble the character and explain how each post relates back to the character. This strategy helps further students' understanding of POV and perspective in a creative and fun way.
February 18, 2011
Thoughts of love and relationships occupy the majority of a teenager’s time, and in this collection of poems about love, Mora describes the feelings of love teens have for family, friends, sports, and a boyfriend or girlfriend. Although most of the poems are written in free verse, some poems are sonnets, haikus, acrostics, and even a clerihew. While the poems are written for entertainment purposes, on the page opposite the poem, there is a brief explanation of the poem’s style for an interested reader.
While many see the teen years as life’s last chance to be carefree before embracing adulthood, teens deal with tough issues that Mora adequately expresses. In “Questions”, the narrator is afraid of his friend’s cutting. In “Pressure”, a girl is feeling the pressure to have sex with her boyfriend but is unsure of what to do. In “Kissing”, the teen girl learns the weight of having to carry herself now that her dad can’t carry her problems for her. Each poem conveys a different feeling and evokes a different personal response from the reader.
The poem “Doubt” sums up the fears all teens have, especially about love.
“What if guys think I can’t kiss because I can think?
What if I ask her out and she laughs?
Why are all the guys I know so short?
Why do girls like those handsome fakes
with fast cars and fat wallets?
Can I eat less and less until I’m transparent and shine?
Why do their eyes squint when we speak Russian?
Do boys really imagine all of us without clothes?
What if no one wants to touch me because I’m too fat?
Why do they start whispering about me when I walk by?
When I dance, why do my feet get stuck, as if music
is a foreign language?
Does anyone care about the real me?
Does my breath smell like a fish tank?
Why don’t they like him just because he’s Muslim?
What if the way I kiss is dull, like oatmeal?
Why do adults say, ‘What do you know about love?’
Why is my dog the only one who really understands me?
How does it feel to be married?
Why do my parents kiss in public?
If I sing better than she does, why don’t I get up there and sing?
Why do teachers all think I’m dumb as a garbage can?
What will it be like living far away in a dorm with strangers?
What if, when I leave,
I crumple
by myself?” (Mora 11)
Told through simple questions, Mora asks the questions all teens have wondered, from the superficial to the thoughtful to the insecure. Although the words lack the metaphors and rhythmic patters of some poetry, the honesty of the poem reflects teens’ fears.
The final poem “My Song” ends with every teen’s dream as they leave high school to move on to college.
“It’s still morning,
the spring of my life.
I’m starting my journey,
family and friends at my side,
my song inside,
and love as my guide.” (Mora 165).
Valentine’s Day, or the days leading up to it, is a great time to read and to write about love with teenagers. That’s what is on their minds anyway. “With Feeling” is an excellent poem to start off with. The narrator is annoyed with the piano teacher and the English teacher who urge him to play and to write with feeling. His response is, “Feeling? I am feeling. Don’t they see it shimmering on my skin, plain for all to see? I burn with feeling.” This poem can be a springboard for students to write about their own feelings.
While many see the teen years as life’s last chance to be carefree before embracing adulthood, teens deal with tough issues that Mora adequately expresses. In “Questions”, the narrator is afraid of his friend’s cutting. In “Pressure”, a girl is feeling the pressure to have sex with her boyfriend but is unsure of what to do. In “Kissing”, the teen girl learns the weight of having to carry herself now that her dad can’t carry her problems for her. Each poem conveys a different feeling and evokes a different personal response from the reader.
The poem “Doubt” sums up the fears all teens have, especially about love.
“What if guys think I can’t kiss because I can think?
What if I ask her out and she laughs?
Why are all the guys I know so short?
Why do girls like those handsome fakes
with fast cars and fat wallets?
Can I eat less and less until I’m transparent and shine?
Why do their eyes squint when we speak Russian?
Do boys really imagine all of us without clothes?
What if no one wants to touch me because I’m too fat?
Why do they start whispering about me when I walk by?
When I dance, why do my feet get stuck, as if music
is a foreign language?
Does anyone care about the real me?
Does my breath smell like a fish tank?
Why don’t they like him just because he’s Muslim?
What if the way I kiss is dull, like oatmeal?
Why do adults say, ‘What do you know about love?’
Why is my dog the only one who really understands me?
How does it feel to be married?
Why do my parents kiss in public?
If I sing better than she does, why don’t I get up there and sing?
Why do teachers all think I’m dumb as a garbage can?
What will it be like living far away in a dorm with strangers?
What if, when I leave,
I crumple
by myself?” (Mora 11)
Told through simple questions, Mora asks the questions all teens have wondered, from the superficial to the thoughtful to the insecure. Although the words lack the metaphors and rhythmic patters of some poetry, the honesty of the poem reflects teens’ fears.
The final poem “My Song” ends with every teen’s dream as they leave high school to move on to college.
“It’s still morning,
the spring of my life.
I’m starting my journey,
family and friends at my side,
my song inside,
and love as my guide.” (Mora 165).
Valentine’s Day, or the days leading up to it, is a great time to read and to write about love with teenagers. That’s what is on their minds anyway. “With Feeling” is an excellent poem to start off with. The narrator is annoyed with the piano teacher and the English teacher who urge him to play and to write with feeling. His response is, “Feeling? I am feeling. Don’t they see it shimmering on my skin, plain for all to see? I burn with feeling.” This poem can be a springboard for students to write about their own feelings.
November 18, 2012
Reviewed by McKenzie Tritt for TeensReadToo.com
Everyone has experienced love, whether giving or receiving. For some it's spending time with their pet. For others, it's sitting down with a book. And for many, love involves other people.
Pat Mora has set out to create a collection of poems capturing the elements of love in its different stages: the initial excitement, the hurt and pain, the healing, and the loving again. These experiences are described through everyday people's jotting down of words, some in familiar languages, others that are foreign. Some poems follow popular methods of rhyming, while others use much less well-known forms.
Each poem, despite their differences, expresses one thing: love.
With nothing but a very basic knowledge of poetry, I still enjoyed this quick read. DIZZY IN YOUR EYES offers many takes on love, not just the expected ones. The first poem drew me in instantly with the simple lines "the letters on the screen don't match the letters I type...No matter what I do, the keys type your name." Each poem was unique, but also went with the others. I especially appreciate this collection because it could be read in one sitting or drawn out over the course of time, revisited again and again.
The thing about poetry is that, depending on the reader, it can be interpreted in many ways. While subtexts provide some guidance, the poems are left to the reader's discretion. That, I believe, is what will make DIZZY IN YOUR EYES an emotional collection for its readers. It reminds us that love is both simple and complicated, and that everyone can experience its effects.
Everyone has experienced love, whether giving or receiving. For some it's spending time with their pet. For others, it's sitting down with a book. And for many, love involves other people.
Pat Mora has set out to create a collection of poems capturing the elements of love in its different stages: the initial excitement, the hurt and pain, the healing, and the loving again. These experiences are described through everyday people's jotting down of words, some in familiar languages, others that are foreign. Some poems follow popular methods of rhyming, while others use much less well-known forms.
Each poem, despite their differences, expresses one thing: love.
With nothing but a very basic knowledge of poetry, I still enjoyed this quick read. DIZZY IN YOUR EYES offers many takes on love, not just the expected ones. The first poem drew me in instantly with the simple lines "the letters on the screen don't match the letters I type...No matter what I do, the keys type your name." Each poem was unique, but also went with the others. I especially appreciate this collection because it could be read in one sitting or drawn out over the course of time, revisited again and again.
The thing about poetry is that, depending on the reader, it can be interpreted in many ways. While subtexts provide some guidance, the poems are left to the reader's discretion. That, I believe, is what will make DIZZY IN YOUR EYES an emotional collection for its readers. It reminds us that love is both simple and complicated, and that everyone can experience its effects.
October 5, 2011
According to author Pat Mora, "Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love" is written in four parts or a "love cycle". The poems start with love's initial rush and confusion, then delve into love's heartaches and sadness, then explore the slow process of healing; and finally move back to falling in love again. The poems are written in various poetic styles and told from the adolescent vantage point. All teens should be able to recognize their own struggles and joys in these poems about first love. While there are Spanish words and phrases throughout the poems, such as "Conversation/Conversacion", the themes of this book make it universal. The collection is appropriate for middle and high school age students. This book won the YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers Award in 2011 and was an Americas Awards commended title for 2011.
November 26, 2011
As teen love goes, as Mora suggests, it's "the intensity of teen years" that captured her attention and willed her to write these love poems. Together as a whole it's uninspiring, but yet, the book can be a great teaching tool for any ELA teacher during a poetry unit.
The string of poems are written in different forms and before each form she states and defines the form, then the example is the poem. The form and definition don't detract from the poetry since each poem is on the right-hand page and most left-hand pages are designs, so the occasional definition is listed on the design page.
A must to look at more for teaching and instruction that inspirational love poetry.
The string of poems are written in different forms and before each form she states and defines the form, then the example is the poem. The form and definition don't detract from the poetry since each poem is on the right-hand page and most left-hand pages are designs, so the occasional definition is listed on the design page.
A must to look at more for teaching and instruction that inspirational love poetry.
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February 17, 2016This is a beautiful book of poetry targeting teens. It is full of the questions, concerns, joys, disappointments, and humiliations that surround love at this age. Each poem is narrated by a different narrator, some male and some female. It's a perfect coming-of-age book about love and all its myriad forms. In addition to it being a great read, Moran has included lots of different types of poetry formats, along with brief descriptions about the hallmark features of these respective formats, which will most certainly be helpful for budding teen poets wanting to branch out in their own writing.
October 9, 2012
Synopsis
Have you ever had a doubt about something? Have you ever had a talent that you were to shy to share about? Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love shares these thoughts in wonderfully written poems about love, and seeing the inner beauty in yourself.
Reasons
This book is filled with wonderfully written poems that would be good to have in a library for any young reader who've had doubts about their looks, or that first time they fall in love.
Citation
Mora, Pat. Dizzy in your eyes: poems about love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Print.
Have you ever had a doubt about something? Have you ever had a talent that you were to shy to share about? Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love shares these thoughts in wonderfully written poems about love, and seeing the inner beauty in yourself.
Reasons
This book is filled with wonderfully written poems that would be good to have in a library for any young reader who've had doubts about their looks, or that first time they fall in love.
Citation
Mora, Pat. Dizzy in your eyes: poems about love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Print.
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June 6, 2016Dizzy in your eyes is about poems about love that is simply about simply butterflies in your stomach about the simply grammar school crushes. The love poem about how their dearest family members passing that they remember their old pass memories about their love ones. Also about dear connections about siblings about how it is the best thing in the world to have that sibling connection of being best friends. I would recommend this book to young adults who interest in that simple love connection of all types.
October 22, 2011
I enjoyed this book of poetry from the very first. The first poem is about trying to write an email but being unable to do anything except type the loved one's name. I felt this way about my husband back when we were dating. I think you could find at least one love poem in here that speaks to you! The poems are not just about romantic love which is nice as well as the different stages of love.
November 17, 2015
I love poetry and I am a hopeless romantic, who loves love!! So what better than a book of love poems?! Mora covers so many forms of love; one you might have for a pet, writing, your grandparents, your secret love, love for a friend who has passed away. This book covers them all, plus they're written in many forms of different poetry, which i found very interesting as I don't know much about them. Very good pick for a newcomer to poetry.
September 7, 2017
Very interesting read. Even tho the collection of peoms was marked YA, some of the works in the collection anyone can relate to (who can't relate to heart ache or love). Some on the other hand were a little juvenile (it is a young adult poetry book so that will happen). But ill definetly read more by this author.
May 4, 2018
I think this collection of poems was very bittersweet. Some poems made me tear up while some made me really happy. I think that kind of balance made the book so enjoyable. I did not like how quickly the book was over, I would have wished for a longer read with just a few more poems. Other than that I loved this book and I highly recommend it.
May 12, 2017
I'm so happy I picked this up! I loved Pat Mora's writing style and it was so cool to see all the different poetry forms she experimented with. As always, not every poem was incredible, but well worth the read!
November 16, 2021
Dizzy in your eyes had a different point of view on love. Like some of them were young love, loving someone who doesn't know, growing up with someone you love, and even old love. I thought it was good, and there were a few pages that I had to keep reading over and over because they had really gotten to me. There were stanzas that were some of the sweetest things I've read and others that were something I would've never thought I would've liked, and even ones I preferably didn't like. I would recommend this to someone who likes poetry where they could find something that does relate to them in a way. We've all experienced different kinds of love which Dizzy in Your Eyes provides.
September 24, 2018
This book is a really good. It’s about all sorts of different poetry skills, telling different stories. It goes from love rush, heartache, confusion, sadness, healing and finding love again. At the end of it the author want you to know your own unique story aka “song” as she calls it. I recommend this book because it opens up your mind and think of all sorts of possibilities that could happen in your love life. It also shows it from another perspective since it’s a bilangual story. It switches from English to Spanish, but no need to worry the majority of it is in English.
August 8, 2022
had a couple good ones but overall was more childish than i had wanted so 2.5 for me personally
i did like the variation in poem forms and structures used though, learned some new ones i didn't know about before and were blown away by how intricate but cool they are (i.e. the sestina and the pantoum)
I Can Dance, Spanish, Dear __, Safety, With Feeling, and Mysterious were the ones I particularly liked
i did like the variation in poem forms and structures used though, learned some new ones i didn't know about before and were blown away by how intricate but cool they are (i.e. the sestina and the pantoum)
I Can Dance, Spanish, Dear __, Safety, With Feeling, and Mysterious were the ones I particularly liked
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