Angst!: Teen Verses From the Edge!
Kiki$8.95(USD)
Every day thousands of teenage girls log on to a unique Web site called PlanetKiki.com. They come for the gossip, the advice and beauty tips. But mostly they come for each other. Seventy-five percent of Planet Kiki's content is created by its audience, and the most compelling chunk of that content is the poetry. Raw, soul-baring, outspoken, unfiltered, direct - here are the voices of teenage girls worldwide, at their most expressive.
ANGST! Compiles the best of Planet Kiki's poetry in an edgy anthology on the agony and the ecstasy of being a teenager. ANGST! Covers the full spectrum of the girl's experience: the struggles with falling in love, being unpopular, braking up, feeling alienated, searching for life's meaning, bonding with friends, even the awkwardness of not having the right clothes. Uplifting, commiserating, humorous, and always passionate about telling the truth, these are poems that speak from the teenage heart, to the teenage heart.
Following the poems is a Poetry 101 primers, complete with tips on subjects, forms, rhyming and technique, plus brief bios of the poets featured.
Teenage Angst
Thomas Stuber$26.95(USD)
Bonus Short Film: BABY SHARK
Also included on this DVD will be up-and-coming French director Pascal-Alex Vincent's controversial, homoerotic short film BABY SHARK (BEBE REQUIN), which was nominated for the Palme D'Or Award for Best Short Film at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
This treatise on teens behaving badly takes three separate approaches to its theme:. In the first: a skater boy (Adrien Jolivet, IN THE ARMS OF MY ENEMY) asks a bored, young heterosexual couple to sexually indulge him. In the second story, a boy/girl couple contends with a nerd who clings to the boy after class each day. In the final story, an attractive young guy puts the moves on his identical twin brother's girlfriend. (The twins, Victor and Alexandre Carril, star in Vincent's upcoming, debut feature film GIVE ME YOUR HAND, currently in post- production).
15 min. / 16mm / Dolby SRD / French with English & Spanish subtitles
This film is included as a bonus feature on the DVD of TEENAGE ANGST
The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us
Mark Jude Poirier$11.99(USD)
A delightful and terrifying collection of twenty short stories, edited by critically acclaimed writer and novelist Mark Jude Poirier. Adolescence. Fortunately it's over with early and once you've finished paying for therapy, there's still a chance to move on with your life.
The Worst Years of Your Life says it all: angst, depression, growing pains, puberty, nasty boys and nastier girls; these are stories of awkwardness and embarassment from a stellar list of contributors. Great postmodern classics like John Barth's
Lost in the Funhouse are paired with newer selections, such as Stacey Richter's
The Beauty Treatment and A.M. Homes's
A Real Doll, in this searing, unforgettable collection. A perfect book for revisiting old favorites and discovering new ones, and the opportunity to relive the worst years of your life -- without having to relive the worst years of your life.
Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry
Sara Bynoe$13.95(USD)
Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry is the first, the best, and the biggest collection of teen angst poetry ever to be published. Inspired by the popularity of her interactive website, editor Sara Bynoe has compiled the definitive teen angst reader. Divided into 12 categories, including I am Alone and No One Understands My Pain and Obvious Metaphors, this book is for anyone who has ever written truly terrible, meditative, or self-indulgent poetry. Actually, this book is for anyone who survived being a teenager.
All of the poets featured in this collection are now adults, living happy, angst-free lives. However, for this special book, they are willing to reveal excerpts from their old tattered notebooks or leather bound journals. Along with the poems, each poet has included a short introduction, giving background information for each work. As Sara Bynoe says, looking back on teen angst poetry brings people together in a "poetry reading meets stand-up comedy meets AA" sort of way.
