19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

by Nye, Naomi Shihab
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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 -- appear together here for the first time.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Nye, Naomi Shihab
  • ISBN: 9780060504045
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.26 x 0.44
  • Number Of Pages: 142
  • Publication Year: 2005

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