{"title":"Naomi Shihab Nye","description":"\u003cp\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye is the author and\/or editor of more than thirty volumes including six collections of poetry from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eSidekick\u003c\/em\u003e (2026), \u003cem\u003eRed Suitcase\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), \u003cem\u003eFuel\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), \u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Yours \u003c\/em\u003e(2005), \u003cem\u003eTransfer\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and \u003cem\u003eThe Tiny Journalist\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Witter Bynner Fellow. Her numerous awards include a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Patterson Poetry Prize, four Pushcart Prizes, the Robert Creeley Prize the Betty Prize from Poets House for her service to poetry, and the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters. She served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2010–2015, and in May 2019 she was named the 2019–2021 Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fuel","title":"Fuel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks! \u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1207919614\u0026amp;color=%23c05c18\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/estate-sale-by-naomi-shihab-nye\" title='\"Estate Sale\" by Naomi Shihab Nye' style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Estate Sale\" by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the poem, \"Bill's Beans,\" dedicated to her mentor, William Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye writes of finding beans, \"under the leaves, they're secretly long and curling.\/ I pull a perfect question mark and two lean twins, \/ feeling the magnetic snap of stem, the ripened weight.\" In this poetry collection, Nye continually shows us how to look \"under the leaves\" as she writes on topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas, small ferns and forgotten books, to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHidden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you place a fern\u003cbr\u003eunder a stone\u003cbr\u003ethe next day it will be\u003cbr\u003enearly invisible\u003cbr\u003eas if the stone\u003cbr\u003ehas swallowed it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you tuck the name of a loved one\u003cbr\u003eunder your tongue too long\u003cbr\u003ewithout speaking it\u003cbr\u003eit becomes blood\u003cbr\u003esigh\u003cbr\u003ethe little sucked-in breath of air\u003cbr\u003ehiding everywhere\u003cbr\u003ebeneath your words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one sees\u003cbr\u003ethe fuel that feeds you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1998 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46627073818853,"sku":"1880238632","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627073851621,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FUEL.jpg?v=1527683265"},{"product_id":"red-suitcase","title":"Red Suitcase","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \"Next Time\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGinko trees live 1,000 years. \u003cbr\u003eEating the leaves will clear your brain. \u003cbr\u003eWhen I heard about them, I thought of my mother,\u003cbr\u003ehow much I would like to sit under one with her\u003cbr\u003ein the ancient shade, nibbling \u003cbr\u003ethe flesh, the stem, the central vein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e©BOA Editions, Ltd 1994\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46627086696677,"sku":"1880238152","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627086729445,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/RED_SUITCASE.jpg?v=1527683329"},{"product_id":"you-yours","title":"You and Yours","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1208020255\u0026amp;color=%23473e2c\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title='\"Someone I Love\" by Naomi Shihab Nye' href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/someone-i-love-by-naomi-shihab-nye\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Someone I Love\" by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Yours\u003c\/em\u003e, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this county, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. Balancing direct, unstated language with a suggestive \"aslantness,\"  Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood, or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war. She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \"The Day\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI missed the day\u003cbr\u003eon which it was said\u003cbr\u003eothers should not have\u003cbr\u003ecertain weapons, but we could.\u003cbr\u003eNot only could, but should, \u003cbr\u003e          and do.\u003cbr\u003eI missed that day.\u003cbr\u003eWas I sleeping?\u003cbr\u003eI might have been digging\u003cbr\u003ein the yard, \u003cbr\u003edoing something small and slow \u003cbr\u003eas usual. \u003cbr\u003eOr maybe I wasn't born yet.\u003cbr\u003eWhat about all the other people \u003cbr\u003ewho aren't born? \u003cbr\u003eWho will tell them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishing Date: September 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-69-0 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCloth ISBN: 1-929918-68-2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46627128934629,"sku":"1929918690","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627128967397,"sku":"1929918691","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/YOU_AND_YOURS.jpg?v=1527683794"},{"product_id":"transfer","title":"Transfer","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! 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Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.” \u003cstrong\u003e— William Stafford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDusk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewhere is the name no one answered to\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003egone off to live by itself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebeneath the pine trees separating the houses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewithout a friend or a bed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewithout a father to tell it stories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehow hard was the path it walked on\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eall those years belonging to none\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof our struggles drifting under\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe calendar page elusive as\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eresidue   when someone said\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehow have you been   it was\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003estrangely that name that tried\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto answer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye has spent 35 years traveling the world to lead writing workshops and inspire students of all ages. In her newest collection, \u003cem\u003eTransfer\u003c\/em\u003e, she draws on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her extensive travel experiences to create a poetry collection that attests to our shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong her awards, Naomi Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes. In January 2010, she was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9832285125,"sku":"9781934414521","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40608655704235,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627116024037,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TRANSFER.jpg?v=1527683770"},{"product_id":"the-tiny-journalist","title":"The Tiny Journalist","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! 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Nye draws upon her own family’s roots in a West Bank village near \u003cspan\u003eJanna\u003c\/span\u003e’s hometown to offer empathy and insight to the young girl’s reporting. Long an advocate for peaceful communication across all boundaries, Nye’s poems in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tiny Journalist\u003c\/em\u003e puts a human face on war and the violence that divides us from each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eExcerpt from \"Morning Song\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tiny journalist notices\u003cbr\u003eeach movement on the far away roads. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLittle puffs of dust\u003cbr\u003efind her first. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey pretended not to see us. \u003cbr\u003eThey came at night with weapons.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe stares through a hole in the fence, \u003cbr\u003ebarricade of words and wire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe feels the rising fire\u003cbr\u003ebefore anyone strikes a match. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe has a better idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Tiny Journalist:\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation.”                                                                                                                       \u003cstrong\u003e    \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Poetry Books of 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“While Naomi Shihab Nye’s newest book of poetry offers no easy answers, its questions push well beyond the margin of the pages. What happens when we’re reminded not just of human rights injustices but of the quotidian moments in the lives of those affected? Reminded that they too live in this very modern world, with wants and needs as expansive and equally as simple as our own?”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorld Literarure Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From her own understanding and research, her father’s stories and information gleaned from Janna’s posts, Nye creates poetry that imagines the turbulent life of a little girl in a world of war and injustice.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“On every page, Shihab Nye's insistent call is the same: people, all people, deserve to live safe and healthy lives, free from fear and violence. 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In connecting the land and the sea, possibilities and tragedies, poetry reaches the high bar.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: April 9, 2019\u003cbr\u003eCloth ISBN: 978-1-942683-72-8\u003cbr\u003ePaper ISBN: 978-1-942683-73-5\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":12540863447121,"sku":"978-1-942683-72-8","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":12555645059153,"sku":"978-1-942683-73-5","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623633244389,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":49920422576357,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TheTinyJournalist_CVR-min.jpg?v=1538569687"},{"product_id":"boa-classic-book-bundle","title":"Boa Classic Book Bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few goodies from the publisher (broadsides, bookmarks, pins, etc.) at a greatly discounted rate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Boa Classic Book Bundle includes the following paperback collections:\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000\u003c\/em\u003e by Lucille Clifton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eRose\u003c\/em\u003e by Li-Young Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tiny Journalist\u003c\/em\u003e by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe black maria\u003c\/em\u003e by Aracelis Girmay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities\u003c\/em\u003e by Chen Chen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor even greater discounts and incentives, check out our annual \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/products\/subscriptions\"\u003eBoa Book Lovers Subscription.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128969281765,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/SpringBundleIG_2.jpg?v=1783707425"},{"product_id":"sidekick","title":"Sidekick","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten by internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye, \u003ci\u003eSidekick\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a testament to poetry’s enduring power to bear witness.\u003c\/b\u003e With each poem, Nye affirms a truth that feels more urgent than ever: every human being deserves safety, dignity, and peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDrawing on her family’s deep roots in Palestine, Nye writes with both abiding love and immeasurable heartbreak, offering intimate reflections that illuminate the human cost of conflict. 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