I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

by Nye, Naomi Shihab; Janeczko, Paul B.

• ISBN13: 9780689813412
• ISBN10: 0689813414
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Simon Pulse

Summary

In this award-winning anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see girls, and how we all see the world -- often in very different ways, but suprisingly, wonderfully, sometimes very much the same.

Author Biography

Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words Under the Words. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the young adult novel Habibi, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison.

Paul B. Kaneczko has been a writer, poet, speaker, and teacher and has edited numerous distinguished anthologies for young people, including Poetspeak, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, the ALA Notable book, The Place My Words Are Looking For, and Poetry from A to Z: A Guide for Young Writers. His third book of poetry is That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems. He lives in Hebron, Maine, with his wife, Nadine, and their daughter, Emma.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xvii
Reflections	xxv
Carole Satyamurti
Heads on Fire
Two Set Out on Their Journey	2	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Over the Pass	3	(1)
Julie M. Convisser
The Sky Is Blue	4	(1)
David Ignatow
A Geography of Lunch	5	(1)
Mary Jo Schimelpfenig
Sunday	6	(1)
B. Vincent Hernandez
Paper Matches	7	(1)
Paulette Jiles
Snowmen	7	(1)
Agha Shahid Ali
Alloy	8	(2)
Robin Boody Galguera
For My Father	10	(1)
Philip Schultz
Primer	11	(2)
Chana Bloch
Vocation	13	(1)
William Stafford
Telepathy	14	(1)
Linda Besant
Yellow Delicious	15	(1)
Samuel Hazo
The Apple-Eater	16	(1)
Linda Curtis Meyers
Coloring Book	17	(2)
Robert Farnsworth
On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems	19	(1)
Edith Sodergran
The Pee Wee Coach	19	(2)
Walter McDonald
Feminism	21	(2)
Denise Duhamel
Before Sleep	23	(1)
Moshe Dor
Second Childhood	24	(1)
Robin Boody Galguera
What a Boy Can Do	25	(1)
Alberto Rios
Red Cross Lessons at City Park Pool	25	(2)
Melody Lacina
La Sequia	27	(1)
Alberto Rios
My Father's Garden	28	(1)
E.K. Miller
Two Facts	29	(1)
David Huddle
Pokeberries	29	(1)
Ruth Stone
Taking the Hands	30	(1)
Robert Bly
From Him	31	(1)
Andra R. Davis
The Belt	31	(1)
Eric Chock
Touch	32	(1)
Kathryn Kerr
Size Is Relative	33	(1)
Chuck Martin
Rose	33	(1)
Cill Janeway
Boyhood Winter	34	(1)
George Eklund
A Suburban Childhood	35	(1)
Liz Rosenberg
Sins of the Fathers	36	(1)
Mark Vinz
My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance, 1981	37	(1)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The Mystery	38	(1)
David Wevill
Gifts	38	(1)
Judy Ruiz
Father Falling	39	(1)
Peter Desy
Our Room	40	(1)
Molly Peacock
Once a Long Time Ago	41	(2)
Phillip Lopate
Mattress Fire	43	(1)
Penny Harter
Step on His Head	44	(1)
James Laughlin
The Struggle	45	(1)
Toi Derricotte
Passages	46	(1)
Mark Vinz
Looking for Him	47	(1)
Patty Turner
Remempering Brother Bob	48	(1)
William Stafford
The Exciting New Concept of Art Therapy	49	(3)
Marlys West
A Story	52	(1)
Li-Young Lee
The Lizard's Tango	53	(1)
Lucia Casalinuovo
The Backup	54	(2)
Wing Tek Lum
Black Patent Leather Shoes	56	(1)
Karen Mitchell
Short-Wave	57	(1)
Christopher Cokinos
For My Father's Mother Who Has Alzheimer's	58	(3)
M. Eliza Hamilton
I Just Wanna Testify	61	(1)
Cornelius Eady
Anti-Father	62	(4)
Rita Dove
Foreign Exchange
The Skokie Theatre	66	(1)
Edward Hirsch
The Youngest Children of an Angel	67	(1)
Anna Swir
He	68	(1)
Philip Booth
Foreign Exchange	68	(2)
Marion Winik
Fet Walks Melody Home	70	(1)
Gary Hyland
Questions and Answers	71	(1)
Diana O'Hehir
Steven Pudenz	72	(1)
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Dirty Panes	73	(1)
Judith Barrington
Ninetteen	74	(2)
George Bogin
All Their Names Were Vincent	76	(1)
Miriam Kessler
The Inner Man	77	(1)
Charles Simic
The Locker Room	78	(2)
Nora Mitchell
In the Orchard	80	(1)
Gevorg Emin
Summer, At Home	80	(1)
Mary Clark
January	81	(2)
Cornelius, Eady
Where Are You Going?	83	(1)
Nellie Wong
Spoon	84	(1)
Conrad Hilberry
Equality	85	(1)
Nina Cassian
Hey Sweetie	85	(1)
Albert Goldbarth
Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn	86	(1)
Tess Gallagher
Proposal	87	(1)
Kim Stafford
Fish Fact	88	(1)
Pamela Alexander
The Ubiquity of the Need for Love	89	(1)
Ronald Koertge
Love	90	(1)
Grace Paley
Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass it On	91	(2)
David Clewell
Performances	93	(1)
Nina Cassian
Meaning Well	94	(1)
Jack Gilbert
Jump City	95	(1)
Harryette Mullen
The Passion and Woe in Marriage: A Ukranian Love Story	95	(1)
Peter Oresick
Quarrel	96	(1)
Grace Paley
Your Hands	97	(1)
Gevorg Emin
Two Men	98	(1)
Anne Waldman
January	99	(1)
William Virgil Davis
The Yellow Hills in Back	100	(1)
Christianne Balk
For Night Comes	101	(1)
Gunnar Ekelof
Marriage	102	(1)
Joan Logghe
Estrangements	103	(1)
William Pitt Root
The Friendship	104	(1)
Toi Derricotte
Gone Away	105	(1)
Hugo Williams
We Were Love	105	(1)
Yaedi Ignatow
Dressed Up	106	(1)
E. Ethelbert Miller
With Reservations	107	(1)
Naomi Stroud Simmons
The Real Thing	108	(1)
Ronald Wallace
Astonishment	109	(1)
Anna Swir
Autobiography	109	(1)
Tommy Olofsson
The Clothespin	110	(1)
Rhonda Bower
Surplus Blues	111	(1)
Raymond R. Patterson
This Woman	112	(1)
Donna Trussell
Goodbye	112	(2)
Robert Long
Elevator	114	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Namelessness	115	(1)
David Wevill
Reach	116	(2)
Phyllis Janowitz
The Real Names of Everything
Ode to Tomatoes	118	(1)
Francisco X. Alarcon
Canning Season	119	(1)
Wendy Barker
It Happens Working	120	(1)
Richard E. McMullen
To a Set of Drawing Pencils	121	(1)
Fay Lipshitz
For the Woman at the Fast-Food Fish Place Who Called Me Pig	122	(1)
Gary Margolis
Momma Sayings	123	(2)
Harryette Mullen
The Pyramid of Khufu	125	(2)
Khaled Mattawa
Wheelchairs That Kneel Down Like Elephants	127	(1)
Karen Fiser
The Previous Occupant	127	(2)
Agha Shahid Ali
Carpenter's Daughter	129	(1)
Cathy Young Czapla
War	130	(1)
Gregory Orfalea
West Grand Boulevard	130	(1)
Faye Kicknosway
Cow Worship	131	(1)
Gerald Stern
Cow	132	(1)
Joan Fern Shaw
Typographical Errors	133	(1)
Geof Hewitt
Teaching Myself to Read	133	(1)
Karen Fiser
Kitchens	134	(1)
Eric Nelson
Living Lean	135	(1)
Christine Hemp
The Old Dream Oven	136	(1)
Jacinto Jesus Cardona
The Dream Kitchen	137	(2)
Sandra M. Gilbert
A Plague of Telephones	139	(1)
Jim Wayne Miller
Long Distance Calls	139	(1)
Marylee Skwirz
Mother	140	(1)
Zbigniew Herbert
The Teacher I Wanted to Be	141	(1)
Ingrid Wendt
Lament for an Old Woman	142	(1)
Albert Huffstickler
One Man's Family	143	(2)
Rosemary Catacalos
The Unwritten	145	(1)
W.S. Merwin
Emily Dickinson's To-Do List	146	(2)
Andrea Carlisle
A Little Piece of Sky	148	(1)
Sharif Elmusa
War Rug	149	(2)
Natasha Waxman
Plant Poem	151	(1)
Edward Field
Letting the Parakeet Fly	152	(1)
Judith Steinbergh
small poems	152	(2)
Robert Burlingame
Elegy	154	(2)
Linda Pastan
Separate Longings
Revelations, First Time	156	(1)
Roger Jones
Androgeny	157	(1)
Yaedi Ignatow
The Shapes of Leaves	157	(1)
Arthur Sze
Images	158	(1)
Marilyn Williams
Burning the Dolls	159	(1)
Richard Peabody
The Field Trip	160	(2)
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Summer Morning	162	(2)
Charles Simic
Depending on the Light	164	(1)
Andrea Potos
August	165	(1)
Shuntaro Tanikawa
When I Was Young on an Island	165	(2)
Diane Hina Kahanu
How to Hug Your Three-Year-Old Daughter	167	(2)
Paul B. Janeczko
4 daughters	169	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Disappearing	169	(2)
David Clewell
Medusa Cement	171	(1)
Alise Alousi
The Lion Tamer	172	(1)
Paul Durcan
Tallness	173	(1)
Paulette Jiles
Who'd Want To Be A Man?	174	(1)
Gregory Orr
To Be A Woman	175	(1)
Daisy Zamora
Lunchtime	176	(1)
David Ignatow
Peace	177	(2)
Leslie Ullman
The Onion Woman	179	(1)
Ted Kooser
My Mother's Blue Vase	180	(1)
Jeannette Doob
Everyone	181	(1)
Shuntaro Tanikawa
String Affair	182	(1)
Margo LaGattuta
The Family	183	(1)
William Freedman
April Rape	184	(1)
Marilyn Nelson
On M. Butterfly	185	(1)
Wing Tek Lum
Tracing Back	186	(1)
Jane Mayhall
A Missed Opportunity	187	(1)
James Tate
Snow	188	(2)
Donna Trussell
We Say	190	(1)
Reginald Gibbons
Dennis's Sky Leopard	191	(2)
Thylias Moss
Wild Strawberries	193	(1)
Ronald Wallace
Camellias	194	(1)
Linda Pastan
Dressing My Daughter	195	(1)
George Eklund
Fitting Room	196	(1)
Lois Marie Harrod
Beginnings	197	(1)
Michael Burns
Late, Watching Television	198	(1)
Del Marie Rogers
Golden Season	199	(1)
Kurtis Lamkin
Dark Song	200	(1)
Martha Zweig
Driving My Parents Home at Christmas	201	(1)
Robert Bly
I Remember the Room Was Filled with Light	202	(1)
Judith Hemschemeyer
Was It	202	(1)
Philip Booth
Coats	203	(1)
Jane Kenyon
Romance	203	(1)
Gerald Stern
Archaeology	204	(1)
George Ella Lyon
The Congressman Visits the Grade School	205	(1)
James Hathaway
The Secretary Chant	206	(1)
Marge Piercy
Mountain Men	207	(1)
Tom Clark
Bali Hai Calls Mama	208	(2)
Marilyn Nelson
Here I Am	210	(3)
Li-Young Lee
The Lost Girls	213	(4)
Linda Hogan
Travelling Together	217	(2)
W. S. Merwin
Contributors' Notes	219	(28)
Acknowledgments	247	(10)
Index of Poems	257	(2)
Index to Female Poets	259	(1)
Index to Male Poets	260