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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781880238639
Edition: 1st edition.
ISBN: 1880238632
Label: BOA Editions Ltd.
Manufacturer: BOA Editions Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 65
Publication Date: June 01, 1998
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Studio: BOA Editions Ltd.
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A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing", "Fuel" covers topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas to small ferns and forgotten books to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.
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Naomi Shihab Nye's poetry is truly great. I had the pleasure of doing a workshop with her at the Kentucky Women's Writers Conference last year, and I can tell you she really inspired the poet in me too. This is fine collection.
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This is a lovely poet. And these are moving poems. Unpretentious and direct.
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I remember a time when poems were supposed to be intelligent and well-written and creative. What has happened, that this lazy, self-indulgent, unimaginative writer has received even the lukewarm acclaim that she has?
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It is quite difficult to get through the work of many contemporary poets. So many write of themselves only, and have a tendency to go on and on...writing from the heart is one thing, but to rant incessantly is quite another. As a children's poet, I teach the importance of observing, valuing, cherishing the world around, to see it with "new eyes", and to feel free to share what you discover. It was always apparent to me that the poet's job is to "make new" what is usually thought of as ordinary, ... Read More
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Naomi Shihab Nye is still able to find greatness in the small things. Her new book of poems, "Fuel,"reminds the reader that there poetry is all around us, on our street, in our children and even in a garden of beans. Nye's poetry is a work of surprising images and deceptive simplicity. In "Alphabet" we watch as older residents of her neighborhood who are "going up/into the air." Her writing is poignant and clears the air of stuffy, undecipherable, ego poetry. It is obvious with poems like "Messenger" ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781880238639
Edition: 1st edition.
ISBN: 1880238632
Label: BOA Editions Ltd.
Manufacturer: BOA Editions Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 65
Publication Date: June 01, 1998
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Studio: BOA Editions Ltd.