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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Greenwillow Books
ISBN13:
9780060504045
$11.82
EM"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."/em 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. EMMaybe they have something to tell us./em 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.
- | Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
- | Publisher: Greenwillow Books
- | Publication Date: March 15, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 142 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0060504048
- | ISBN-13: 9780060504045
- Author:
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Publisher:
- Greenwillow Books
- Publication Date:
- March 15, 2005
- Number of pages:
- 142 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0060504048
- ISBN-13:
- 9780060504045