num_pages: 160
description: Naomi Shihab Nye is one of this generation's most exciting, accessible poets. She is the author of three highly acclaimed collections of poems: Different Ways to Pray, Yellow Glove, and Hugging the Jukebox, a National Poetry Series selection in 1982. Words Under the Words gathers Nye's best poems from these books into a single volume.Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the diverse cultures of her home in the Southwest, and vivid impressions of her travels in Central America, the Middle East, and Asia, Nye writes poems that attest to our shared humanity. In a voice both familiar and fresh, she faithfully records "the gleam of particulars" that make up our lives.
language: English
title: Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book)
genres: Cultural, Poetry, Unfinished, Nonfiction, School, Classics, Race, United States
ratings_count: 1362
publisher: The Eighth Mountain Press