19 Varieties of Gazelle

by Nye, Naomi Shihab

• ISBN13: 9780060097660
• ISBN10: 0060097663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..." 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. Maybe they have something to tell us. 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 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	p. x
	p. 1
Different Ways to Pray	p. 3
My Father and the Figtree	p. 6
What Kind of Fool Am I?	p. 8
Going to the Spring	p. 9
Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl	p. 11
The Words Under the Words	p. 14
Spark	p. 16
The Man Who Makes Brooms	p. 18
The Garden of Abu Mahmoud	p. 20
Her Way	p. 22
The Clean Rinse	p. 24
For Mohammed on the Mountain	p. 25
Passing the Refugee Camp	p. 30
Lunch in Nablus City Park	p. 35
Arabic Coffee	p. 38
Red Brocade	p. 40
Steps	p. 42
Prayer in My Boot	p. 44
Things Don't Stop	p. 46
Even at War	p. 50
The Grieving Ring	p. 51
For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh	p. 53
Those Whom We Do Not Know	p. 55
Visit	p. 58
The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties	p. 59
The Small Vases from Hebron	p. 63
Darling	p. 65
Fundamentalism	p. 68
My Grandmother in the Stars	p. 69
Rock	p. 70
Praying for Wind	p. 73
Olive Jar	p. 80
They Dropped It	p. 83
	p. 85
19 Varieties of Gazelle	p. 87
Arabic	p. 90
Jerusalem	p. 92
Holy Land	p. 94
Half-and-Half	p. 96
Stain	p. 98
My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop	p. 99
A Definite Shore	p. 102
Two Countries	p. 104
The Tray	p. 105
The Many Hats of William Yale	p. 106
What News Are You Listening To?	p. 108
Staying Close	p. 109
Ducks	p. 110
The Address Book of a Lonely Man	p. 112
Footfall	p. 114
Trenches and Moats and Mounds of Dirt	p. 117
What He Said to His Enemies	p. 119
Peace	p. 120
How Long Peace Takes	p. 122
A Single Slice Reveals Them	p. 124
Stone House	p. 125
Jerusalem Headlines 2000	p. 128
Mr. Dajani, Calling from Jericho	p. 130
All Things Not Considered	p. 133
Blood	p. 136
Postscript	p. 139
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