19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

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