Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love by Pat Mora

What does it mean to be in love? What does feel like? What can love do to a person? A collection of poems to experience all that is teenage love from first love to familial love and all the love in between.

The variety of poetry styles is a real win here. There is a style here for all poetry lovers and a great introduction to new readers of poetry. Even from the chapter title pages alone, there is an indication of a mixing of cultures. The mentions of culture are light with some words, phrases, or people being mentioned but otherwise, there is a lack of obviousness. Mora describes herself as tan, with wide hips and eyes that do not open all the way. The acts of poetry are the power center here. Different kinds of love a represented in a variety of poems. Mora includes notes about the poem styles and it feels like an encouragement for the reader to go and write their own.

"The poet’s voice is multifaceted: tender, humorous, and joyful but also profound, as when she immerses her readers in the solitude and sadness of a day of school in an unknown country, with an unknown language (Spanish is the love object here). The author employs an extraordinary diversity of poetic forms, from blank verse to a tanka, a cinquain to an anaphora, a haiku to a triolet and more, short notations adding a learning component for budding poets."  - Kirkus Review

Book Information

Mora, P. (2010). DIZZY IN YOUR EYES: POEMS ABOUT LOVE. Knof. ISBN 9780357843754