Read the excerpt from "Shout: A Poetry Memoir.”I ate red apples heavy-salted on the tomb the sleeping Victorian corpses below fed me secrets sentinel owls peered from a grove of old pines, all of us hoping, waiting on signs of the change that was promisedearthbound, "directionally challenged," "practice," "cemetary girl," and "driven" from SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson, copyright © 2019 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Used by permission of Viking Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
A
“I ate red apples / heavy-salted on the tomb"B
“the sleeping Victorian corpses / below fed me secrets”C
“sentinel owls peered / from a grove of old pines”D
“all of us hoping, waiting on signs / of the change”