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Transfer : poems / by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Van Pelt Library PS3564.Y44 T73 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nye, Naomi Shihab.
- Series:
- American poets continuum series ; 128.
- American poets continuum series ; no. 128
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, [2011]
- Summary:
- A collection of poems by award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye.
- Contents:
- I. History
- 1935
- Bats
- I don't know
- Scared, scarred, sacred
- Haunted
- Valley
- Storyteller
- II. "Just call me Aziz" II poems
- titles by Aziz Shihab
- from his notebooks. Everything in our world did not seem to fit
- My life before America had no toilet tissue
- We did not have drinking water in the middle of the ocean
- Is misery near Kansas, I asked
- Many asked me not to forget them
- A Kansas preacher called me muscleman
- I hate it, I love it
- When one is so far from home, life is a mix of fact and fiction
- Being back with the family is quite wonderful but terribly exhausting
- Member of the tribe
- Fifty years since I prayed or though in Arabic
- III. Knowing
- Dusk
- Thirsty
- Amir & Anna
- Mall aquarium, Dubai
- "The only democracy in the Middle East"
- War
- Maximum security
- Remembering William Stafford
- The burn
- Strict
- Real estate
- Tiny cucumbers
- Swerve
- Where are you now?
- Archive
- Won't you still love me when I'm dead?
- Hello, Palestine
- For Aziz, who loved Jerusalem
- Undone
- Love you love you love you
- Sandhill cranes at the Platte River
- IV. This year, I'll write with ash. Alive
- Moment
- The young poet of Winnipeg
- What will happen?
- Morning birds
- Lying while birdwatching
- Where were we?
- Dear mediator
- Eye contact with a squirrel
- Family love
- You are wanted in the office
- Dallas
- Muscat sundown
- Burlington, Vermont
- For Mutanabbi Street
- Mystery
- Endure
- V. Crossing the creek.
- Later
- Window
- Savigny platz
- Footstool
- Bleibtreustrasse 31
- Last wishes
- Ringing
- Call to prayer
- Cinco de Mayo
- Chicho brothers fruit & vegetable #1
- Chicho brothers fruit & vegetable #2
- Frankly
- Father's day
- We can't lose
- Mom gives away your ties
- WAR is RAW backwards & forwards
- Able to say it
- Comfort
- "Bees see your face as a strange flower."
- At the Block Island ferry
- Waveleng
- Notes:
- Arab American Book Award - Poetry, Honorable Mention, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781934414644
- 1934414646
- 9781934414521
- 1934414522
- OCLC:
- 709681060
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