{"product_id":"things-i-have-to-tell-youisbn-9780763610357","title":"Things I Have to Tell You","description":"\u003cb\u003eTeenage girls tell their own stories — in compelling poetry and prose paired with 42 striking photographs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe voices in this collection have so much to question, so much to grieve. They have so much to celebrate, so much to rage against. They’re ready to speak up and begin the conversation — with you and with the world. More than thirty uncensored poems are accompanied by Nina Nickles’s masterful photographs, which sensitively capture the moods and essence of adolescence. Here, painted in the words of teenage girls, is a portrait of their dreams and desires - a record of hope, disillusionment, anger, joy, sadness, and most of all, strength.Nina Nickles has attended the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine, and the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. In 1999, she won an American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) Big Picture Award, and her work has been shown in numerous galleries in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. While photographing for THINGS I HAVE TO TELL YOU, she says she responded to \"the language, flow, and nuance of gesture - gestures that were at once particular and individual but at the same time expressed so much.\"SECRETS\u003cbr\u003eDo you know my secret,\u003cbr\u003eDid I tell you it last night,\u003cbr\u003eWere you listening to my dreams,\u003cbr\u003eWere you hiding out of sight?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo you look to find my secret,\u003cbr\u003eReading letters, reading notes,\u003cbr\u003ePicking up sometimes on phone calls,\u003cbr\u003eOpening books to see what I wrote?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo you really want to know my secret,\u003cbr\u003eWill it answer all your questions,\u003cbr\u003eTake away your mass of worries?\u003cbr\u003eOr maybe, you could ask for my suggestions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo you ever think to ask me about my secret,\u003cbr\u003eBeing honest and forthright,\u003cbr\u003eWith no lies or hidden feelings?\u003cbr\u003eOnly then will my secret come to light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica L. McCloskey, age 16\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESCAPE\u003cbr\u003eI look inside me and I don’t see it\u003cbr\u003eI don’t see the power\u003cbr\u003eThe confidence you say I have\u003cbr\u003eYou say I can do anything\u003cbr\u003eThat I’m sure of myself and my intentions\u003cbr\u003eAnd I wonder\u003cbr\u003eBut I don’t know\u003cbr\u003eIf it’s all there\u003cbr\u003eWaiting for the opportunity \u003cbr\u003eto jump into you\u003cbr\u003eAnd try to help you\u003cbr\u003eFix you\u003cbr\u003eAsk you\u003cbr\u003eWhy? Because I don’t know\u003cbr\u003eI wait anxiously\u003cbr\u003eFeeling my stomach\u003cbr\u003eA block of ice\u003cbr\u003eChipping away, melting, \u003cbr\u003ethen freezing up again\u003cbr\u003eWho can I follow?\u003cbr\u003eCuz I don’t want to lead\u003cbr\u003eI ask myself every question\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are temporary answers\u003cbr\u003eBut I know more\u003cbr\u003eLike everybody seems to know more\u003cbr\u003eAnd I still don’t know how\u003cbr\u003eCuz it’s nice to ignore confrontation\u003cbr\u003eAvoid conflict\u003cbr\u003eWatch my rainbow\u003cbr\u003eAnd let you watch yours\u003cbr\u003eBut the universe knows more\u003cbr\u003eI must take this test just like everyone\u003cbr\u003eTakes tests\u003cbr\u003eI am closing in on the sky\u003cbr\u003eHoping it will try to escape\u003cbr\u003eAnd I know I will let it get away\u003cbr\u003eLike I let a lot of things get away\u003cbr\u003eCuz then I won’t have to continue the search\u003cbr\u003eFor my power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheresa Hossfeld, age 16 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEW HONESTY\u003cbr\u003eToday I gave up\u003cbr\u003ea promising career of \"truth.\"\u003cbr\u003eProfound state of love\u003cbr\u003estepped in like a puzzle piece.\u003cbr\u003eCompleting, no, not\u003cbr\u003ethe Empire State Building,\u003cbr\u003enot Mt. Rushmore or\u003cbr\u003evan Gogh’s Sunflowers.\u003cbr\u003eCompleting instead\u003cbr\u003emy departure from \"honesty.\"\u003cbr\u003eCan I find a balance\u003cbr\u003ebetween me and \u003cbr\u003ethe box I call my family?\u003cbr\u003eI want equilibrium.\u003cbr\u003eI want subtle change.\u003cbr\u003eI want to tell the Truth, \u003cbr\u003enot the truth of the woman\u003cbr\u003ewho snapped on a collar \u003cbr\u003eand named me alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFINDING JOY\u003cbr\u003eI found myself a place\u003cbr\u003eto be, to play\u003cbr\u003ea day went by or maybe two\u003cbr\u003eno thoughts of you to crowd my empty mind\u003cbr\u003eI find my body is to me\u003cbr\u003eas lovely as\u003cbr\u003ea budding tree\u003cbr\u003ea cat with grace\u003cbr\u003eand emerald eyes\u003cbr\u003eso unconcerned with shapely thighs\u003cbr\u003ejust me\u003cbr\u003eInvisibly\u003cbr\u003ea girl \u003cbr\u003einside this shape\u003cbr\u003ea woman’s hips and breasts\u003cbr\u003eso much wider, softer than the rest\u003cbr\u003eI found myself a crystal blue\u003cbr\u003elike nymphs or faeries do\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI never thought of you\u003cbr\u003eor what you’d think of me\u003cbr\u003eI found my body was\u003cbr\u003ea mass of ground\u003cbr\u003ethe earth inside of me\u003cbr\u003ebehind my vinyl walls of\u003cbr\u003epicture perfection\u003cbr\u003eI was the earth, the sky\u003cbr\u003eit made me want to cry\u003cbr\u003eto shout the softness\u003cbr\u003eI have never dared let out\u003cbr\u003emy curves, my hair\u003cbr\u003ea part of who I was\u003cbr\u003ea blonde in a clear glass pond\u003cbr\u003emyself a flow of nature\u003cbr\u003ealone\u003cbr\u003efinding joy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarissa Korbel, age 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWORDS\u003cbr\u003eWords fly across the paper like blackbirds across the sky\u003cbr\u003eand I think to myself why oh \u003cbr\u003ewhy oh why\u003cbr\u003ewhy why,\u003cbr\u003eWhy would anyone use words like \u003cbr\u003eI hate and \u003cbr\u003eI can’t and \u003cbr\u003eI quit therefore I won’t and \u003cbr\u003eGoodbye. \u003cbr\u003eGood bye?\u003cbr\u003eWhy not take that beautiful skill and use words like \u003cbr\u003eI love and \u003cbr\u003eI can and \u003cbr\u003eI will or \u003cbr\u003eat least I’ll try and \u003cbr\u003eHello . . . hello,\u003cbr\u003ebecause I believe in word conservation\u003cbr\u003eand if you’re going to use a word at all \u003cbr\u003eit should be one that glides off of your tongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI know I am strong\u003cbr\u003eboth in my convictions and in myself.\u003cbr\u003eI know I am beautiful\u003cbr\u003eboth inside and out.\u003cbr\u003eI know I am powerful\u003cbr\u003eand growing more so.\u003cbr\u003eI know I will do just fine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura Veuve, age 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThings I Have to Tell You. 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