More Odes to Common Things. Volume IIIMore Odes to Common Things. Volume III

"For those readers new to this series, More odes to common things adopts a poetic form popularized by Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda in Odas elementales, published in 1954. Through his odes, the Chilean poet hoped to reach a broader audience of readers and listeners, particularly Chile's poor and economically marginalized. His odes celebrated everyday items - the spoon, the apple, a cluster of violets, among others. The volume of odes you are holding adopts that same approach, giving voice to the joys, concerns, setbacks, victories and day-to-day existence of a group of adolescent writers who are either homeless or who have been homeless."--