This Same Sky A Collection of Poems from Around the World

by Nye, Naomi Shihab; Nye, Naomi Shihab

• ISBN13: 9780689806308
• ISBN10: 0689806302
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Aladdin

Summary

From the East and from the West, from across the oceans, from places where it is tomorrow or even yesterday, from 68 countries come 129 unforgettable voices that will thrill, sadden, surprise, and exhilarate. An ALA Notable Children's Book. A Booklist Editors' Choice.

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xii
House of Spring	5	(4)
Muso Soseki
WORDS AND SILENCES: ``Sawdust from under the Saw''
``Once I got a postcard from the Fiji Islands''	9	(1)
Jaan Kaplinski
Old Mountains Want to Turn to Sand	10	(1)
Tommy Olofsson
The Meaning of Simplicity	11	(1)
Yannis Ritsos
Poetry Was Like This	12	(2)
Al Mahmud
The Pen	14	(1)
Muhammad al-Ghuzzi
The Question Mark	14	(1)
Gevorg Emin
The Gatherer	15	(1)
Ali al-mak
Lizard	16	(1)
Bundgard Povlsen
Between Ebb and Flow	17	(2)
Fadwa Tuqan
Crowned Crane	19	(1)
A Tree Within	20	(1)
Octavio Paz
A Short Story	20	(1)
David Escobar Galindo
Life of the Cricket	21	(1)
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Coils the Robot	22	(1)
Floria Herrero Pinto
from Altazor	23	(1)
Vicente Huidobro
Paper Doll	24	(1)
Guadalupe Morfin
Distances of Longing	24	(1)
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
At the Beach	25	(1)
Kemal Ozer
Monkeys	26	(1)
Klara Koettner-Benigni
Freedom	27	(1)
Wimal Dissanayake
Lamento	28	(1)
Thomas Transtromer
Wordless Day	29	(4)
Chang Shiang-hua
DREAMS AND DREAMERS: ``Eyes the Color of Sky''
In the Kitchen	33	(1)
Jean Joubert
A Headstrong Boy	34	(2)
Gu Cheng
Wanting to Move	36	(1)
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
The Cucumber	37	(1)
Nazim Hikmet
The Tin Bird	38	(1)
Ramon C. Sunico
On My Birthday	39	(1)
Farhad Mazhar
The Orphan	40	(1)
Mohammad al-Maghut
WilPeace	41	(1)
Yehuda Amichai
Healing	42	(1)
Yannis Ritsos
Happy as a Dos's Tail	42	(1)
Anna Swir
Picnic to the Earth	43	(1)
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Why There Are No Cats in the Forest	44	(1)
Simeon Dumdum Jr
Song	45	(1)
Cecilia Meireles
The Sick-Room	46	(1)
R. A. Simpson
The Shadow Inside Me	46	(1)
Tommy Olofsson
``One day I asked the mirror facing me''	47	(1)
Tialuga Sunia Seloti
The Prison Cell	48	(2)
Mohmud Darwish
A Sailor's Memoirs	50	(2)
Muhammad al-Fayiz
``Where is the heart I am calling?''	52	(1)
Roberto Juarroz
Day-Dream	52	(1)
Samarendra Sengupta
The Parakeets	53	(1)
Alberto Blanco
A Dream of Paradise in the Shadow of War	54	(1)
Muneer Niazi
Salt and Memory	55	(1)
Zoltan Zelk
My Great Grand Uncle	56	(1)
Tarapada Ray
Magic	57	(4)
Dahlia Ravikovitch
FAMILIES: ``The First Tying''
Wolf-Ancestry	61	(1)
Vasko Popa
To the Ancestprs	62	(1)
Childhood	63	(1)
Jean Joubert
Remembering	64	(1)
Xue Di
Sparrow	65	(1)
Transformations	65	(1)
Taduesz Rozewicz
Souvenir of the Ancient World	66	(1)
Carlos Drummond De Andrade
Industrial Childhood	67	(1)
Sharon Stevenson
I Was Born in jacinto Vera	68	(1)
Liber Falco
Weights	69	(1)
Les Murray
Small Wants	70	(2)
Bibhu Padhi
Believe It or Not	72	(1)
Nicolai Kantchev
Brownout	73	(1)
Tony Perez
Atong	74	(1)
Benilda S. Santos
Atong and His Goodbye	75	(1)
Benilda S. Santos
Father and Son	76	(1)
Tomasz Jastrun
Petrified Minute	77	(1)
Zoltan Zelk
Companion	77	(1)
Manjush Dasgupta
A Pearl	78	(1)
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
A New Dress	79	(1)
Ruth Dallas
Vitasp	80	(1)
Gieve Patel
Poem for My Son	81	(1)
Bibhu Padhi
An Appoinment	82	(1)
Chang Shiang-hua
The First Shoe	83	(1)
Maire Mhac an tSaoi
Grandmother	83	(1)
Sameeneh Shirazie
My Life Story	84	(2)
Lan Nguyen
The Mushroom River	86	(1)
Xue Di
Letter from My Son	87	(1)
Shihab Sarkar
Summer	88	(1)
Jayanta Mahaparatra
Jasmine	89	(1)
Kyongioo Hong Ryou
Footpath	90	(1)
Stella Ngatho
Family Portrail	91	(4)
Eka Budianta
THIS EARTH AND SKY IN WHICH WE LIVE: ``Water That used to Be a Cloud''
Mindoro	95	(1)
Ramon C. Sunico
Dawn	96	(1)
Edith Sodergran
Grass	97	(1)
Tom Kristensen
The Land of Mists	98	(1)
Kwang-Kyu Kim
Spring Poem	99	(1)
Colleen Thibaudeau
Dew	100	(1)
Linus Suryadi AG
``Beside a Stone three''	100	(1)
Christine M. Krishnasami
Country Memory	101	(1)
Leticia Herrera Alvarez
Cuernavaca	102	(1)
Aline Pettersson
Mountain Tambourine	102	(1)
Peter van Toorn
``The sodden moos sinks underfoot...,''	103	(1)
Ales Debeljak
Improvisation (Eching)	104	(1)
Kevin Perryman
``Greedy snowside''	105	(1)
The Sky Is Vast	106	(1)
Parmila Khadun
The Penguin	107	(1)
Ricardo Yanez
The Open Shutter	108	(1)
Karl Krolow
Wind's Foam	109	(1)
Al Mahmud
The Squirrel	110	(1)
Saleem Barakat
The Birth of a Stone	111	(1)
Kwang-kyu Kim
Caring for Animals	112	(1)
Jon Silkin
Autumn and the Sea	113	(1)
Javier Heraud
Pitcher	114	(1)
Renee ferrer de Arrellaga
Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth	115	(1)
Cat	116	(1)
Jibananda Das
The Moon Rises Slowly over the Ocean	117	(1)
Xu De-min
Stars at Night	118	(1)
Iku Takenaka
The Pit Ponies	119	(2)
Leslie Norris
Great Aso	121	(1)
Tatsuji Miyoshi
Ants	122	(1)
Yusuf al-Sa'igh
from Diary of a Woodcutter	122	(2)
Fuad Rifka
Under This Sky	124	(5)
Zia Hyder
LOSSESS: ``Kissed Trees''
``What is it that upsets the Volcanoes...,''	129	(1)
Pablo Neruda
There's an Orange Tree Out Three	130	(1)
Alfonso Quijada Urias
Horse by Moonlight	130	(1)
Alberto Blanco
A Tree	131	(1)
Klara Koettner-Benigni
Love	132	(1)
Tymoteusz Karpowicz
A Brief Note to the Bag lady, Ma Sister	133	(3)
Yusuf Eradam
A Man Never Cries	136	(1)
Jose Craveirinha
Surprise	137	(1)
Blanca Rodriguez
``Oh! Oh! Should They Take Away My Stove...'' My Inxehaustible Ode to Joy	138	(1)
Miron Bialoszewski
A Train is Passing	139	(1)
Poul Borum
A Gift Horse	139	(1)
Alamgir Hashmi
In the Labasese Mountains	140	(2)
Nadia Tueni
The Garden of a Child	142	(1)
Nirendranath Chakravarti
Bicycles	143	(1)
Anderi Voznesensky
The memory of Horses	144	(1)
Rolf Jacobsen
Inside	145	(1)
Kim Chiha
Home	146	(1)
Nasima Aziz
Before the Game	147	(4)
Vasko Popa
HUMAN MYSTERIES: ``White Bracelets''
Napoleon	151	(1)
Miroslav Holub
Locked In	152	(1)
Ingemar Leckius
Debt	153	(1)
Sunay Akin
A Boy's Head	154	(1)
Miroslav Holub
The Ship's Whistle	155	(1)
Tarapada Ray
Sweet Like a Crow	155	(2)
Michael Ondaatje
Volunteer Worker	157	(1)
Tony Perez
Behind bars	158	(1)
Fadwa Tuqan
On Destiny	159	(1)
Shuntaro Tanikawa
For Genevieve	160	(1)
Simeon Dumdum, Jr.
Childhood Is the Only Lasting Flower	161	(1)
Ramon Diaz Eterovic
Goodness	162	(1)
Benny Andersen
The Rhythm of the Tomtom	163	(1)
Antonio Jacinto
``Do what do you like with my face,''	164	(1)
Amanda Aizpuriete
The New Suit	165	(1)
Nidia Sanabria de Romero
White Bracelets	166	(1)
Collen Thibaudeau
I Have Ten Legs	167	(1)
Anna Swir
The Tongue	167	(1)
Pia Tafdrup
``A man Comes, in his suit crumpled,''	168	(1)
Sergei Timofeyev
Greenland's History	169	(2)
Sven Holm
The Wall	171	(1)
Tania Diaz Castro
Jerusalem	172	(1)
Yehuda Amichai
``There are times when I can't move''	172	(1)
Roberto Juarroz
``In his room the man watches''	173	(1)
Homero Aridjis
The Indians	174	(2)
Roberto Sosa
The Labourer	176	(1)
Toolsy Daby
Clouds on the Sea	177	(1)
Ruth Dallas
Or	178	(2)
Ali Darwish
My Share	180	(1)
Salih Bolat
Pride	181	(1)
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Lusia	182	(2)
Lucia Casalinuovo
Far and Close	184	(1)
Gu Cheng
At the Ferry	185	(4)
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
Notes on the Contributors	189	(9)
Map	198	(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading	201	(2)
Acknowledgments	203	(6)
Index to Countries	209	(2)
Index to Poets	211