It's a seeming boon for teen poetry lovers: Novels, memoirs and more are being written in verse. Pioneered by young adult authors in the 1990s -- Mel Glenn, Karen Hesse and Sonya Sones -- the now popular format makes a tough medium look accessible.
Luckily many of these books are quite good -- thoughtfully conceived with lines pushing for insight and, at the least, circling around a metaphor.
Unfortunately others beg the question, "Why was this written in verse?" Maybe it's cynical to say, but on the page the poems often have the look of text messaging screaming, "Hey, I'm easy to read. You can gobble me like candy." Is that why some publishers, scrabbling for …
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