From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up–Tamblyn is an emerging writer with passion and commitment. Free Stallion is a compilation of poetry that amounts to a portrait of the artist as a teenager， from the very early years through post adolescence. Many of the selections are appropriately self-absorbed but move beyond journalistic catharsis to real insight and stunning language for one so young. In Dig， Tamblyn wants to distance herself with language that examines and classifies: Hollywood's got a face./Trophy wives with stitched-up sideburns/look like 3rd degree burn victims. Gutsy， she speaks frankly of sexuality. In Vibration she explores the limits of enjambment: Drop your weapons–/pick up my hip attachment./Screw it，/on./I'm suing for a-sexual harassment. In Moths she writes with the same desire to push language a little further off-kilter: …I am a derelict without furniture or life signs，/painting your posture from distance that/can fit inside the palm of your land. And she has economical humor: I want to sneak out/in the night，/do stupid things with nature/in the dark，/regret them/in the light. Public libraries will want this book for the permission the writing gives to use language in the expression of strong emotion， and as a unique record of one artist's early promise of crafting an art for life or vice versa.–Teresa Pfeifer， Alfred Zanetti Montessori Magnet School， Springfield， MA Copyright © Reed Business Information， a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "A fine fruitful gestation of throbbingly nascent sexuality awakened in young new language."-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti"Here's a poet with the courage and liveliness to speak for her generation -- and for mine. She is not afraid of politics or anti-politics of either the government or of her body， including the twists of emotional beauty and deep rage. To paraphrase Emerson， these poems are as old as the rock and as new as the foam."-- Michael McClure See all Editorial Reviews