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19 Varieties of Gazelle

Poems of the Middle East

By Naomi Shihab Nye

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| Hardcover | 9780060097653

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"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 bContinue

"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.

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  • 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East By Naomi Shihab Nye

    Perhaps no other genre has the power of poetry. With the ability to get at the heart of the most common or complex ideas and examine them anew, the form offers something for every youngster, from the fledgling reader to the reflective teenager. April ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 160 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0060097655
  • ISBN-13: 9780060097653
  • Publisher: Greenwillow
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2002
  • Also available as: Paperback
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