19 Varieties Of Gazelle - Poems Of The Middle East (Paperback, 1st HarperTempest ed)

"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.

General

Imprint:	HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	March 2005
Authors:	Naomi Shihab Nye
Dimensions:	181 x 133 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
Edition:	1st HarperTempest ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-050404-5
Categories:	Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN:	0-06-050404-8
Barcode:	9780060504045

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