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• Fuel

  Poems

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing", "Fuel" covers topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas to small ferns and forgotten books to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.

• Hugging the Jukebox

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  Here is a poet who knows what happiness is. She has produced that rare thing, a book of genuine distinction that is also truly endearing.

• Yellow Glove

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  In this, her third collection of poems, Nye examines both that common road and the particulars that her poetic sensibility forces her to notice. Her subjects range from her childhood and her Middle Eastern heritage, to her present life as a writer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mint Snowball

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  A collection of prose poems that cover topics such as library cards and obituaries.

• The Tiny Journalist

  Poems

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Jihad Ayyad, the 'Youngest Journalist in Palestine,' who at age 7 began…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Honeybee

  Poems & Short Prose

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  A collection for young adults. This particular book features sixty original poems from the honored poet.

• Voices in the Air

  Poems for Listeners

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  One of Shihab's young adult collections. Ninety-five poems pay tribute to essential voices past and present that have the power to provoke us, lead us, and give us hope.

• Everything Comes Next

  Collected & New Poems

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  A young adult collection of Shihab's work. Contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including 'Famous,' 'A Valentine for Ernest Mann,' 'Kindness,' and 'Gate A-4,' as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry

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  An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Naomi Shihab Nye, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.

• Brief Encounters

  a Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

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  Represents a multitude of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms, and features the work of nearly eighty writers, both emerging and established--among them Naomi Shihab Nye, Roxane Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, Stuart Dybek, Patricia…Read moreRead more of this annotation