### From Publishers Weekly The Sufi mystic Rumi has sold more than half a million volumes of his poetry-no small feat, considering that he lived in the 13th century. In this collection, poet Coleman Barks offers a funny, iconoclastic preface in which he attempts to tease out the reasons for Rumi's
Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing
โ Scribed by Soto, Gary
- Book ID
- 107528307
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780152063016
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โฆ Synopsis
A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary Soto
The fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems. Told from the point of view of both boys and girls, narrators of various ethnicities fall in love for the first time, pine over crushes, and brood over broken hearts. Tender, lighthearted, and surprising, this collection will capture teens, tweens, and anyone who remembers what it's like to be a young person in love.
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