The gen-xers before us were being written off as a wasted generation of slackers but the music they were making, the films they played a part in and so many other bits of pop culture really spoke to the part of us that was trying to become an individual. We wrote this stuff because we really wanted to figure out what we were supposed to be doing with our lives. This is where us now all too grown up 90s kids come in. Unable or unwilling to blurt this stuff out to our equally disgruntled and emotional peers (or the popular types we pit ourselves against in our heads everyday) we then find ourselves using poetry to get it out of our systems. The trouble is that at that age we also really don't want to talk about it with anyone we see as an authority figure and we tend to see ourselves as our own sort of mini fiefdoms, lost islands where only our truth is the real one. As teens we all struggle with self expression, identity, social conformity and the very loaded minefield of relationships. The poetry actually winds up acting as a nice little snapshot of teenage life and the thought processes involved with being "that age". The teens who are still struggling through the angst, loneliness and anxiety of being a young adult and the folks who were teens in the 90s and writing just this kind of poetry themselves. There two groups of people who are really going to get this book.
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