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Naomi Shihab Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit.
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Nye’s recent collections of poetry include Transfer (2011), Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018), and The Tiny Journalist (2019). In addition to poetry, Nye has written fiction for children, poetry and song recordings, and poetry translations.
Making a Fist. By Naomi Shihab Nye. We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. — Jorge Luis Borges. For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me, a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear. I was seven, I lay in the car.
‘Kindness’ is one of the best-known poems of Naomi Shihab Nye. It upholds the value of kindness in the modern world and how we can incorporate this attitude into our hearts.
So Much Happiness. Naomi Shihab Nye. 1952 –. It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to tend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change. But happiness floats.
Famous. By Naomi Shihab Nye. Share. The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth. before anybody said so. The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds. watching him from the birdhouse. The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek. The idea you carry close to your bosom.
Naomi Shihab Nye (Arabic: نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is an Arab American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six.
Naomi Shihab Nye’s mixed heritage—her father is Palestinian, her mother is American—shapes the subjects of her poetry. Through mostly free verse, Nye often writes about everyday life while addressing cultural issues.
Her latest poetry collections are “ The Tiny Journalist ” and “ Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners.”. Poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye: “Stripped of a sense of well-being, / we downed our...