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Article: Naomi Shihab Nye, selector: is This Forever, or What? Poems & Paintings from Texas.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- July 1, 2004
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Naomi Shihab Nye, selector Is This Forever, or What?: Poems & Paintings from Texas
164 pp. Greenwillow 3/04 ISBN 0-06-051178-8 19.99 Library edition ISBN 0-06-051179-6 20.89 (High School)
In this big, lush volume, 140 Texans, in verse and art, address matters unique to the state and common to humanity. Humor, mystery, and a distinctly contemporary sensibility mark both the poems and the paintings, but central to them all is a hugeness and generosity of vision ...