19 Varieties of Gazelle
Poems of the Middle East
New York : Greenwillow Books, [2002]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 142 pages ; 19 cm
"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."
Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.
Maybe they have something to tell us.
Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time.
Target Audience: 910L
ISBN:
0060097655 (trade)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Nye | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |