19 Varieties of Gazelle

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

• ISBN13: 9780060097653
• ISBN10: 0060097655
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-10
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

This volume collects for the first time all of Nye's poems about the Middle East, peace, and being an Arab-American in the U.S.

Author Biography

Naomi Shihab Nye has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, the I. B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, and four Pushcart Prizes, as well as numerous honors for her books for younger readers. She lives in San Antonio, Texas

Table of Contents

Introduction	x
Section One	1	(84)
Different Ways to Pray	3	(3)
My Father and the Figtree	6	(2)
What Kind of Fool Am I?	8	(1)
Going to the Spring	9	(2)
Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl	11	(3)
The Words Under the Words	14	(2)
Spark	16	(2)
The Man Who Makes Brooms	18	(2)
The Garden of Abu Mahmoud	20	(2)
Her Way	22	(2)
The Clean Rinse	24	(1)
For Mohammed on the Mountain	25	(5)
Passing the Refugee Camp	30	(5)
Lunch in Nablus City Park	35	(3)
Arabic Coffee	38	(2)
Red Brocade	40	(2)
Steps	42	(2)
Prayer in My Boot	44	(2)
Things Don't Stop	46	(4)
Even at War	50	(4)
The Grieving Ring	54
For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh	53	(2)
Those Whom We Do Not Know	55	(3)
Visit	58	(1)
The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties	59	(4)
The Small Vases from Hebron	63	(2)
Darling	65	(3)
Fundamentalism	68	(1)
My Grandmother in the Stars	69	(1)
Rock	70	(3)
Praying for Wind	73	(7)
Olive Jar	80	(3)
They Dropped It	83	(2)
Section Two	85	(54)
19 Varieties of Gazelle	87	(3)
Arabic	90	(2)
Jerusalem	92	(2)
Holy Land	94	(2)
Half-and-Half	96	(2)
Stain	98	(1)
My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop	99	(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