A Collection of Violent Poems

About the Book

This book is the product of a classroom assignment, hand written and illustrated by 12-year-old Dylan Dunne, in 1983. It was published in 2010 concomitant with and illustrative of his mother’s book, “Wait, What Do You Mean?” that details Dylan’s life growing up unidentified as an Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) person. “A Collection of Violent Poems” represents the linguistic and artistic talents consistent with AS. The extreme blood-and-guts content illustrates the failure to internalize moderating social boundaries; a neurotypical preteen, with his assimilation of social norms, probably would not have written or drawn these horrifying depictions for a poetry book. Despite the coarse topic, the artistic rendition and poetry are exacting and refined. Acknowledgement: Barbara (Baker) Bryant, Dylan’s seventh grade English teacher. We applaud her for not censoring this book.

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