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Article: SHEDDING LIGHT ON ISRAEL AND PALESTINE; Naomi Shihab Nye
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- Boise Weekly
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- February 24, 2004
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Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet who writes of our nuanced borders--borders between time and event, place and person, friend and foe. She is a poet who tells stories--of flies and fists and river fish. She is an essayist who writes about bread and terror and her ancestral Palestine. She is a novelist of young adult fiction and a teacher who stresses pleasure and spaciousness when she addresses young and emerging writers.
"Skin remembers how long the years grow/when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel/of singleness, feather lost from the tail/of a bird, swirling onto a step,/swept away by someone who never saw/it was a feather. Skin ate, walked,/slept by itself, knew how to raise a/see-you-later ...
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... ... acquainted with Naomi Shihab Nye's poetry in the mid 1980s ... the anthology. Since then, Nye--who is also a folksinger ... Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2005) was a National Book ... Pushcart Prize four times. Nye is the daughter of an American ...
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