
Naomi shihab nye, editor, poet, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. I missed that day. Or maybe i wasn’t born yet. In you and yours, through her empathetic use of poetic language, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, extraordinary.
What about all the other people who aren’t born? Who will tell them?Balancing direct language with a suggestive “aslantness, ” Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. In 2001 she received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. The dayi missed the day on which it was said others should not have certain weapons, but we could.
She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war.
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners

Acclaimed and award-winning poet, inspiration, humor, teacher, and National Book Award finalist Naomi Shihab Nye’s uncommon and unforgettable voice offers readers peace, and solace. Full of words of encouragement, and hope, solace, this collection offers a message of peace and empathy. Voices in the air celebrates the inspirational people who strengthen and motivate us to create, to open our hearts, and to live rewarding and graceful lives.
This volume of almost one hundred original poems is a stunning and engaging tribute to the diverse voices past and present that comfort us, lead us, compel us, and give us hope.
Head Off & Split: Poems

Finney's poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, like her mother's wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, on uncanny political and family events, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president's final State of the Union address.
Artful and intense, or throw away, finney's poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, dice, cut off, fragment, dishonor, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime.
Loving Pedro Infante

Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Isbn13: 9780743445733. Comfort comes in her adoration for Infante and in the companionship of her best friend, Irma "La Wirma" Granados. In the soothing darkness of her local theater, thirty-something teacher's aide and divorcée Teresina "Tere" Ávila looks straight into the smoldering eyes of Pedro Infante and wonders where her life has gone.
The impossibly handsome mexican singer and movie icon died in 1957, but to Tere -- secretary of the Pedro Infante fan club chapter 256 -- he remains an everlasting symbol of the possibility of passion beyond her New Mexico town.
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems A Far Corner Book

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Red Suitcase American Poets Continuum

Still, I like you spirit. Anyone who says, "here’s my address, write me a poem, " deserves something in reply. So i’ll tell a secret instead:poems hide. He was a serious manwho lived in a serious way. Check your garage, the person you almost like, the odd sockin your drawer, but not quite. And let me know.
Used book in Good Condition. So, he re-invented themas valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him. Condition: New. Isbn13: 9780743445733. They are the shadowsdrifting across our ceilings the momentbefore we wake up. And the poems that had been hidingin the eyes of skunks for centuriescrawled out and curled up at his feet.
Mona in the Promised Land: A Novel

Tracking provided on most orders. On every page, gish jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! . A new york times notable bookin these pages, acclaimed author gish Jen portrays the day-to-day of American multiculturalism with poignancy and wit, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, introducing us to teenaged Mona Chang, New York.
A multicultural message delivered with the wit and bit of art. Isbn13: 9780743445733.
Ceremony: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Tayo, a world war ii veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Tracking provided on most orders. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Penguin Books. Used book in Good Condition. A multicultural message delivered with the wit and bit of art.
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Fuel: Poems American Poets Continuum Series

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There There: A novel

. White-hot. Isbn13: 9780743445733. Opal viola victoria bear shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. Devastating” the washington post at the same time as it is fierce, thoroughly modern, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down.
Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Dene oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry.
Condition: New. One of the 10 best books of the year—the new york times book reviewwinner of the center for fiction first novel prizeone of the best books of the year: the washington post, gq, library journal, npr, publishers weekly, san francisco chronicle, california, the oprah magazine, urban indians living in oakland, propulsive” People Magazine story of twelve unforgettable characters, The Dallas Morning News, BookPage, extraordinary” The New York Times There There is the “brilliant, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER Tommy Orange’s “groundbreaking, O, Time, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, who converge and collide on one fateful day.
Transfer American Poets Continuum

In her newest collection transfer she draws on her Palestinian American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her extensive travel experiences to create a poetry collection that attests to our shared humanity. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Condition: New. Among her awards, a guggenheim fellow, Naomi Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow.
Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Tracking provided on most orders. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Used book in Good Condition.
A multicultural message delivered with the wit and bit of art. Reading her work enhances life.