Full name: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

Author: Naomi Shihab Nye Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Young adult Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060504045 0060504048

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. 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. Similar books: Time You Let Me In by Naomi Shihab Nye The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot What Have You Lost? by Naomi Shihab Nye Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas Fuel by Naomi Shihab Nye