The author balances direct language with a suggestive aslantness, probing the fragile connection between language and meaning.
She lives in San Antonio, Texas..
In 2001 she received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She has traveled abroad as a visiting writer on three Arts America tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency.
Nye\'s work has been featured on PBS poetry specials including NOW with Bill Moyers , The Language of Life with Bill Moyers , and The United States of Poetry .
Naomi Shihab Nye , poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations.
She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity, and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things.
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.
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.
Or maybe I wasn\'t born yet.
Was I sleeping? I might have been digging in the yard, doing something small and slow as usual.
I missed that day.
Not only could, but should, and do.
The Day I missed the day on which it was said others should not have certain weapons, but we could.
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.
In You and Yours , Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary.
In this volume, ordinary people become extraordinary through empathetic use of poetic language.
The author balances direct language with a suggestive aslantness, probing the fragile connection between language and meaning
