19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

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Reprint

ISBN13:

9780060504045

ISBN10:

0060504048

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

10/7/2009

Publisher(s):

HarperCollins Publications

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Summary

This National Book Award finalist features a stunning collection of poems about the Middle East, family, peace, and what it means to be Arab-American.

Section One

(84)

Different Ways to Pray

(3)

My Father and the Figtree

(2)

What Kind of Fool Am I?

(1)

Going to the Spring

(2)

Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl

(3)

The Words Under the Words

(2)

Spark

(2)

The Man Who Makes Brooms

(2)

The Garden of Abu Mahmoud

(2)

Her Way

(2)

The Clean Rinse

(1)

For Mohammed on the Mountain

(5)

Passing the Refugee Camp

(5)

Lunch in Nablus City Park

(3)

Arabic Coffee

(2)

Red Brocade

(2)

Steps

(2)

Prayer in My Boot

(2)

Things Don't Stop

(4)

Even at War

(1)

The Grieving Ring

(2)

For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh

(2)

Those Whom We Do Not Know

(3)

Visit

(1)

The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties

(4)

The Small Vases from Hebron

(2)

Darling

(3)

Fundamentalism

(1)

My Grandmother in the Stars

(1)

Rock

(3)

Praying for Wind

(7)

Olive Jar

(3)

They Dropped It

(2)

Section Two

(54)

19 Varieties of Gazelle

(3)

Arabic

(2)

Jerusalem

(2)

Holy Land

(2)

Half-and-Half

(2)

Stain

(1)

My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop

(3)

A Definite Shore

102

(2)

Two Countries

104

(1)

The Tray

105

(1)

The Many Hats of William Yale

106

(2)

What News Are You Listening To?

108

(1)

Staying Close

109

(1)

Ducks

110

(2)

The Address Book of a Lonely Man

112

(2)

Footfall

114

(3)

Trenches and Moats and Mounds of Dirt

117

(2)

What He Said to His Enemies

119

(1)

Peace

120

(2)

How Long Peace Takes

122

(2)

A Single Slice Reveals Them

124

(1)

Stone House

125

(3)

Jerusalem Headlines 2000

128

(2)

Mr. Dajani, Calling from Jericho

130

(3)

All Things Not Considered

133

(3)

Blood

136

(3)

Postscript

139