The Poet X Love Poems * Roman letters and reports

* Roman letters and reports from Herod and Pilate

Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature

with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose―yet whose own story has remained largely untold

and freedom in German-occupied

" ―Tif Marcelo

The Poet X Love Poems * Roman letters and reportsWinner of the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times bestselling novel in verse by an award winning slam poet, about an Afro Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood.