Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom

By Azura Tyabji and Jackson Neal

2019 Button Poetry Prize Runner-Up

Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Exploring the interplay of adolescence and media, Dear Azula is a masterclass on how Generation Z see themselves reflected on screen, how they find themselves in characters when the world does not grant them the possibility.

These poems pay homage to the cartoon characters who made us the wicked lovestruck people that we are. These ubiquitous stories of teen ghost boys and water bending women gave wonder to a generation raised by recession. In illustrious villains we learned our own glamour. In chiseled chins and 2D teeth we learned desire. In Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom we bring the early 2000s renaissance of animation into our modern lives to unpack, celebrate, revel, and remember.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Button Poetry
• Release date: Jun 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638340195

Azura Tyabji

Azura Tyabji served as the 2018-19 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate and National Youth Poet Ambassador for the West. Her debut poetry collection, Stepwell, was released by Poetry Northwest. She writes in pursuit of healing, community, and justice.

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offering. Crafted each other, deities. We loved under the still moon.

DEAR AZULA,

I HAVE A CRUSH ON

DANNY PHANTOM

DEAR AZULA,

I HAVE A CRUSH ON

DANNY PHANTOM

poems by

Jackson Neal and Azura Tyabji

© 2021 by Jackson Neal and Azura Tyabji

Published by Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press

Minneapolis, MN 55403 | http://www.buttonpoetry.com

All Rights Reserved

Manufactured in the United States of America

Cover design: Nikki Clark

ISBN 978-1-943735-94-5

Ebook ISBN 978-1-63834-019-5

CONTENTS

Self Portrait: Danny Phantom

I Have a Crush on Shego

Zuko’s Ode

Dear Azula,

Black Fire Ballad

Fiona Chose to Be an Ogre

Refraction

Murder Ballad, Raven: Patricide

Yzma Dresses