Fuel
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2013
65 pages
978-1-938160-56-1 (ISBN)
Description
Naomi Shihab Nye focuses on ordinary people and ordinary situations, which, when rendered through the poems in Fuel, become remarkable. The poet imagines the border families of southern Texas, small ferns and forgotten books, Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East. Nye has written, "Lives unlike mine, you save me."
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Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, anthologist, has been a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Witter Bynner Foundation/Library of Congress. Author of more than twenty volumes, her recent books include Mint Snowball and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East which was selected as a National Book Award finalist in 2002. Her books of poems include Fuel (BOA Editions) and Red Suitcase (BOA). Nye's work has been featured on the PBS poetry specials NOW with Bill Moyers , The Language of Life with Bill Moyers and The United States of Poetry . She has read her work on National Public Radio's Prairie Home Companion. Poetry editor for The Texas Observer, Nye has worked for as a visiting writer in schools at all educational levels. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Muchas Gracias Por Todo
- Bill's Beans
- Wedding Cake
- Genetics
- Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things
- Elevator
- Cape Cod
- Being From St. Louis
- Eye Test
- The Small Vases From Hebron
- Darling
- One Boy Told Me
- Boy and Mom at the Nutcracker Ballet
- Passing It On
- Always Bring a Pencil
- Your Name Engraved on A Grain of Rice
- San Antonio Mi Sangre: From the Hard Season
- Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men
- What's Here
- Waikiki
- Ongoing
- Boy's Sleep
- Glint
- Early Riser
- Fundamentalism
- Untitled
- Ducks
- New Year
- My Friend's Divorce
- Visit
- The Palesinians Have Given Up Parties
- Half-And-Half
- Butter Box
- Smoke
- Alone
- Alphabet
- Feather
- Hidden
- Waiting to Cross
- Estate Sale
- Lost
- Puff
- Snow
- Steps
- Books We Haven't Touched in Years
- The Rider
- Solve Their Problems
- Messenger
- Living At The Airport
- String
- Fuel
- Coming Soon
- Pancakes With Santa
- Alaska
- So There
- Across The Bay
- My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop
- Enthusiasm In Two Parts
- Our Son Swears He Has 102 Gallons of Water in His Body
- Morning Glory
- Boy and Egg
- The Time
- Untitled
- Last Song For the Mend-It Shop
- How Far Is It To The Land We Left
- Our Principal
- Point of Rocks, Texas
- Pause
- Luggage
- The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
- Keep Driving
- The Difficult Life of A Yokohama Leaf
- Listening To Poetry in A Language I do not Understand
- From This Distance
- Sad Mail
- Public Opinion
- Open House
- Quite of the Mind
- Return
- Vocabulary of Dearness
- Pollen
- The Last Day of August
- I Still Have Everything You Gave Me
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
