| "A self-portrait of a generation - the post- boomers, born between 1961
and 1982, otherwise labeled by the media as "slackers", "Lost Youth",
"grunge", and "Generation X". -Marlow Peerse Weaver, Editor
Assembled from over 4500 submissions, this generational chorus of 180
voices, from around the world, represents a reality-based expression of
the wide spectrum of this generation. The poems were not selected on
literary merit, rather for their honesty in depicting very real segments
of this generation, each a colorful tile in a larger mosaic.
What this book reveals is the many-faceted givens faced by this
generation, its challenges, its responses to those givens, its joys,
aspirations, its angst. It is a generation, perhaps like all, that
defies stereotyping, or labeling."
"In Our Own Words" The voices of over 180 Gen Xer's
214 poems from around the world, a "harmonious chaos",
a generational collage, defying the stereotypes, clichs and labels
saying - "this is who we are...this is our generation's diversity !!!"
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