Naomi Shihab Nye

A collection of poems for adults by the Palestinian American author exploring her identity, war, and the violence that separates the human race. The pro-Palestine poems are inspired by seven-year-old Janna Jihad Ayyad, who captured videos of anti-occupation protests with her mother's smartphone.

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved and widely read poets in America. Her speaking engagements are booked by the Steven Barclay Agency, and she appears at schools, festivals, and conferences in excess of 100 times per year. In January 2010 Naomi Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Along with this honor, Nye has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship...

Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous, her vision true, her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes - a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders. Narrated by the author....