Walking Alarm Clocks with Feathers Everywhere (826NYC)

“tiempo pasa    y reviven los recuerdos” Walking Alarm Clocks with Feathers Everywhere is a personal poetry collection by sixth and seventh grade students at M.S. 88 that features some of the most moving, surprising, hilarious figurative language you’ll read. In these pages, you’ll find poems about where these young authors are from—Guatemala, Venezuela, Brooklyn, and beyond—where worlds spill over in riotous colors, music, “a tornado of flavors” and sometimes “un tornado de problemas,” where “engines roar like beasts,” and “at night, the ocean glows with light.” It is, as one author in the volume writes: “an earth inside [their] mind[s].”  Keep reading to see these writers move like “a group of fishes all together” in multiple voice poems that teach you “how to survive middle school” and “shake the world.” One author ends his poem, “And when I play my guitar, I feel that the world sings.” When you finish this volume, you’ll feel the same.  Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit 8