false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173896016m/342068.jpg 342068 4 As she grieved over the "huge shadow [that] had been cast across the lives of so many innocent people and an ancient culture's pride" after September 11, 2001, poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye's natural response was to write, to grasp "onto details to stay afloat." Accordingly, Nye has gathered over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States. Devoted followers of the award-winning and beloved poet will recognize some of their favorites from her earlier collections (<I>The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East</I>, etc.), while absorbing themselves in her new haunting and evocative poems. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands that "recognize grapes, / and the damp shine of a goat's new skin." She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. Readers of all ages will be profoundly moved by the vitality and hope in these beautiful lines from Nye's heart. (Ages 9 to adult) <I>--Emilie Coulter</I> 332430 2002 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East total:188|5:64|4:68|3:41|2:9|1:6| 188 739 275 33 342068 0060504048 9780060504045 177 32 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173896016m/342068.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342068.19_Varieties_of_Gazelle_Poems_of_the_Middle_East 4 0 false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 08:07:01 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 08:37:35 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 342068 0060504048 9780060504045 177 32 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173896016m/342068.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342068.19_Varieties_of_Gazelle_Poems_of_the_Middle_East 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 13:16:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 13:20:51 -0700 2009
From "Arabic Coffee"
"... When
he carried the tray into the room,
high and balanced in his hands,
it was an offering to all of them,
stay, be seated, follow the talk
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Reading Level: Fluent

Topics & Themes: Poems about the culture of the Middle East: religion, food, work, war, daily rituals, women's roles, legends.

Curricular Use: Shared or independent.

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