YA novel 'The Poet X' is an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion

Five minutes after opening The Poet X, the YA debut from poet Elizabeth Acevedo, I set the book down and tweeted, “Reading #ThePoetX without a pen is an exercise in futility. You will want to underline something astonishing on every single page.”

That feeling never went away. Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion.

Xiomara Batista, sometimes “X,” is the only daughter of strict Dominican immigrants. She was born a fighter – feet first, fists waving, given