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Index
Cover
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Epigraph
1. Abandoned
2. Lost
3. Wild Rhymes
4. Am I An Animal Yet?
5. Found
6. Like a Bird
7. Big Mouth
8. Adopted
9. So Many Storytellers
10. My Name is a Statue, But My Mind Roams Free
11. Home
12. My Tree Friends
13. Night
14. Changing Names
15. Frightened By Grown-ups
16. Lightness
17. School
18. First Verses
19. A Burst of Verses!
20. Reading, Reading, Reading
21. Practicing Traditional Poetic Forms
22. Challenging Myself
23. Why I Begin to Crave Improvisation
24. Vowel Rhymes
25. Every Sadness
26. Shared Sorrows
27. Any Happiness
28. Family Adventures
29. A Family Mystery
30. Family Camping
31. Witness
32. Suffering
33. Hurricane
34. Scandal
35. Rebellious Rhymes
36. Acrobatics of the Heart
37. When You’re in Love, Every Word is Magical
38. Trickster
39. Feeling Worthless
40. Feeling Worthy
41. The Poet Boy
42. A Terrible Secret is Finally Revealed
43. One Secret Leads to Another
44. Vicious Nightmares Attack Me
45. After Betrayal
46. Dreams of Escape
47. Imperfect Poetry Is My Only Refuge
48. Fragments
49. Songs of Life
50. Fourteen
51. Melancholy
52. An Invitation
53. Moving Away From Home
54. A Celebrity
55. An Act of Congress
56. Disappointment
57. A World of Books
58. Independent Thought
59. Falling in love is a cliff
60. This Flurry of Verses
61. Uncertainty
62. Selfishness
63. Torment
64. Nature
65. A Declaration of Love
66. Misunderstood
67. A Mob of Grown-ups
68. Exile
69. I Dare Myself
70. Unexpected Success
71. Meeting Another Powerful Man
72. A Gift of Riches
73. Wasted Wealth
74. Punishment
75. The Students Are My Own Age
76. Truly a Prison
77. In Praise of Freedom
78. A Different Kind of Liberty
79. I Am My Own Prisoner
80. Smallpox
81. The Mathematics of Anger
82. Waiting to Grow Up
83. Loveless In My Own Homeland
84. Writing, Writing, Writing
85. Bars
86. When I’m Sober
87. Wanderlust
88. Finally
89. The Soul of a Poem
90. The Edge of the Earth
91. Preparations
92. War
93. Earthquake
94. Volcano
95. The Sun Disappears
96. Yearning for Light
97. Flight
98. Wondering
99. Language Barriers
100. A Traveler’s Mind
101. Traveling With Invisible Mentors
102. Un amigo
103. When I Write Poetry
104. Nineteen Years Old
105. Imaginary Orchards
106. A Foreigner at the End of the Earth
107. Finding My Way
108. Judged
109. Refusing To Be Judged
110. Accepting My Self
111. Anger Is Natural
112. Buzzing Bees of Hope
113. A Room at the End of the Earth
114. When I’m Asked to Describe the Process of Writing
115. Poetry Wings
116. Rejection
117. Perseverance
118. Danger
119. No Longer a Teenager
120. My First Book
121. A Lifetime of Rebellious Rhythms and Rhymes
122. My Message for the Future
Author’s Note
About the Author
References
Copyright
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