19 Varieties of Gazelle Poems of the Middle East

Name: 19 Varieties of Gazelle Poems of the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780060504045

ISBN-10: 0060504048

ISBN-13: 9780060504045

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Naomi Shihab Nye

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"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 --…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.13" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.330



Introduction





Different Ways to Pray


My Father and the Figtree


What Kind of Fool Am I?


Going to the Spring


Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl


The Words Under the Words


Spark


The Man Who Makes Brooms


The Garden of Abu Mahmoud


Her Way


The Clean Rinse


For Mohammed on the Mountain


Passing the Refugee Camp


Lunch in Nablus City Park


Arabic Coffee


Red Brocade


Steps


Prayer in My Boot


Things Don't Stop


Even at War


The Grieving Ring


For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh


Those Whom We Do Not Know


Visit


The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties


The Small Vases from Hebron


Darling


Fundamentalism


My Grandmother in the Stars


Rock


Praying for Wind


Olive Jar


They Dropped It





19 Varieties of Gazelle


Arabic


Jerusalem


Holy Land


Half-and-Half


Stain


My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop


A Definite Shore


Two Countries


The Tray


The Many Hats of William Yale


What News Are You Listening To?


Staying Close


Ducks


The Address Book of a Lonely Man


Footfall


Trenches and Moats and Mounds of Dirt


What He Said to His Enemies


Peace


How Long Peace Takes


A Single Slice Reveals Them


Stone House


Jerusalem Headlines 2000


Mr. Dajani, Calling from Jericho


All Things Not Considered


Blood


Postscript