Callula Xu Poetry - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

The book is a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards.

 To title Callula Xu’s poems as “Juvenile” seems an unfair classification, almost prejudicing the author for her age despite the fact her writing possesses a depth and breadth that extends far beyond many writers ten or twenty years her senior.”

Despite her age, Xu’s work has power and strength that is ageless. The author’s voice is one that has an artist’s curiosity, keen insight, and flexible language style and dexterity displayed in an effortless, seamless way.

— The US Review of Books

Reseña del editor

Nine-year-old Callula Xu is a born storyteller. Her "Juvenile Poems" however, are not at all childish. Written in free-verse style, her stories display a surprisingly adult perspective. The poems are not about her own experience, Callula explains, but are in the words of individuals she has tried to imagine. And what an imagination she has, stimulated by her own wide reading. Her characters are sometimes human-contemporary or from mythological realms of old-but also are animals, monsters, even zombies, who speak in the poems. As a result, this is not a children's book. Adult readers will be surprised, perhaps shocked at times, by the thoughts and actions of these mostly unnamed beings as they recount events of their often troubled lives. Certainly we wish a better future in our own century for this talented young writer. -Virginia Hearn, author of What They Did Right: Reflections on Parents by Their Children (Tyndale & Coverdale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL & London, England)