The Rose That Grew from Concrete - by Tupac Shakur (Paperback)

It was a good book. Good quality.

Tupac was a wordsmith sage

absolutely loved this book and the poems in it. bought it as a gift for my boyfriend and one for myself and we both loved it

This is done lovely poetry! I just happen to love poetry and this book is definitely amazing!

I bought this for a teenager who is into the "gangsta" stuff, and reviewed it before I gave it to her (I was suspicious because I know of Tupac's reputation and was prepared to take it back if I found it to be vulgar or in bad taste). However, to my surprise it was very appropriate and something a teenager could definitely relate to. Some of his poetry is about how lost he felt, relationships with others, and how badly he wanted respect. Overall my thoughts are, if you're getting a teenager to read poetry, you can't really go wrong. I used his poem in a classroom once- I took three famous classic poems and one poem by Tupac, and asked teens to figure out who wrote which poem. Most of the students guessed wrong.When you open the book you see on the left side is a copy of his handwritten poems and on the right is each poem typed out.