In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself

by Marlow Peerse Weaver (Editor), Maura Alia Badji

A generation (born 1960-82) articulating its realities through essays, lyrics, poetry and verse; a generation in search of its own identity.

This series, which has been gaining international acclaim, now includes more than 530 individual voices, some obscure, others well-known, all throwing aside the shackles of political correctness and programmed cliches. From Africa, Asia to the heartlands of America, the search for what is defining this generation.

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2002

Reviews

[Hennabyheather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first "real" book I ever got published in! (Poetry.com scam printings, self-publishings, and school printings aside)

Note that the poem is pretty damned lame a decade later. But at the time, it was awesome.

I'm the verrrry tail end of generation X.

[Maura Alia Badji · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a poem in this book: "Place Shapes The Heart". This publication is special to me for a number of reasons, chiefly because the book was published 11 days after my son was born, and 7 days before I graduated from a teaching program. It felt like proof that I could be a mother and still be a poet; it was an extra treat that I was able to get it together to submit some work while I was pregnant and working on my second Masters degree.