This National Book Award finalist features a stunning collection of Poems about the Middle East, family, peace, and what it means to be Arab-American.
These new and collected Poems of the Middle East -- sixty in all -- appear together here for the first time..
Naomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life.
Maybe they have something to tell us.
Dajani and his swans
Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.
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.
Tell me how to live so many lives at once ...
This National Book Award finalist features a stunning collection of Poems about the Middle East, family, peace, and what it means to be Arab-American
