Joana’s Jeans – Poems for adultlescentecer!

by João Manuel Ribeiro

Did you know that jeans are a symbol of youth culture?

Yes, they are!

In the poems of Os Jeans de Joana, by João Manuel Ribeiro, the culture of those who are no longer children, but not yet adults either (hence the subtitle Poemas para Adultolescentecer) is poetically captured in its paradoxical and contradictory richness.

The search for identity, crushes, flirtations, relationships with parents and school, contradictions and dilemmas, emotions at the surface of the skin, personal and professional challenges, dreams and desires, growing up, fashions, conventions, digital, the influence of technology… are all poetically read and written here with the sensitivity of a poet who does not miss the harshness and irony of the foam of days.

These poems were written to go in the jeans pockets of teenagers and young people, but they can also go in the bags or backpacks of parents and educators.

Anyone who reads and re-reads this book will

see and see themselves growing up (or how they grew up)

identify with (and in) many of the current trends

learn to grow up and accept themselves in the contradictions of age and life

have fun and laugh at themselves

Students in the 2nd and 3rd cycles (and also in secondary school) are sure to get goose bumps reading this book, such is the power of the poetic word! And they’ll be free to say the poems out loud to each other, or whisper them in their ears, or write them down where they can be read, or rewrite them in their own way and to their hearts’ content!

Live these poems for grown-ups!

Age: +12