Almost Grown is a celebration of teen-age experience:

the years of restless desire and blossoming sexuality; the world of high school, parking lots,

and street corners; and the uniquely American culture in which all of us have grown up.

It is a record in photographs and poetry that combines the talents of an adult photographer

and a group of almost-adult poets who were asked to tell a picture's story as their own.

The result is an unusual collaboration between teacher and teenager, a funny

and romantic look at teenagers looking at themselves.

Theirs is a world rarely witnessed by parents. Here is what kids do together

– at the beach of the drive-in, during and after school – what they themselves describe as "doing nothing"

because it is neither work nor play.

In ninety photographs and twenty-five poems written by teenagers in Alan Ziegler's writing workshops,

Almost Grown dramatizes and clarifies adolescence, making it familiar, sensual,

and charged with the shock of recognition.

※ 사진 나름대로 괜찮네.. 특히 저 담배피는 아가의 포스는…ㅎㅎ