23 English eng Goodson, Lori Atkins Contributor <p><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">With this encouragement I began writing dozens of poems. Since we were reading British poets, my poems were largely odes to anything I saw." "The older I get, the more I appreciate my foster parents and, although they have both been dead for years, the more I know about them," Myers said. "Since my foster father was illiterate and my mom read sparingly, at best, I thought I had escaped childhood without an intellectual inheritance. The younger Myers first explored artwork connected to his father's writings. "Since I was writing 'stories' and 'stories' meant picture books to him, he came up with the idea that since my stories didn't have pictures, he would draw them for me," Myers said. "The older I get, the more I appreciate my foster parents and, although they have both been dead for years, the more I know about them," Myers said. "Since my foster father was illiterate and my mom read sparingly, at best, I thought I had escaped childhood without an intellectual inheritance. Twenty years after Myers's acclaimed Vietnam War novel Fallen Angels was published, his new war novel-despite its different setting, modernized army, new characters and cleaner language-accomplishes the same mission: cutting through the cacophony straight to the core of questions facing both military personnel and civilians during any war, at any time.</span><br></p> Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Fall 2008 pdf ISSN 0882-2840 Young adult literature Walter Dean Myers: A Monster of a Voice for Young Adults mixed material Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English