From Library Journal
"Being alive is a common road," Nye says in "Looking for the Cat Grace," "It's what we notice makes us different." In this, her third collection of poems, Nye examines both that common road and the particulars that her poetic sensibility forces her to notice. Her subjects range from her childhood and her Middle Eastern heritage, to her present life as a writer and teacher, to the world around hercharacters making brooms, cutting trees, buying peaches, loving, or suffering from the burdens of war and poverty. The poems are accessible, yet linger in the mind. They are celebrations of things that survive what they must weather, and teach us, like the "yellow glove" of the title, " . . . the difference between floating and going down."Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans P.L.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Arabic Coffee
At Mother Teresa's
Blood
Breaking My Favorite Bowl
The Brick
Catalogue Army
Defining White
A Definite Shore
Dew
The Endless Indian Nights
For Luke, Leaving Us
French Movies
The Garden Of Abu Mahmoud
The Gardener
Going For Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas
Grateful
Hawaiian Punch Prayer, August
Hello
Her Way
The House In The Heart
House With No One In It
Jerusalem (2)
Leo
Looking For The Cat Grave
Lunch In Nablus City Park
The Man Who Hated Tress
The Man Who Makes Brooms
Moon Trio
Mother Of Nothing
My Uncle Mohammed At Mecca, 1981
New Year
News Travelling Well
No One Thinks Of Tegucigalpa
Office 337, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley
Old Iron
Over The Fence
Pablo And I Have Lunch
Pakistan With Open Arms
Rain
Ropes
Some Relief To Think Of Stars
The Spacious Air
Spruce Street, Berkeley
Streets
Sure
Telling The Story
The Thinly Fluted Wings Of Stamps
Till Now
The Traveling Onion
Trying To Name What Doesn't Change
The Tunnel Of Questions
Two Countries
The Use Of Fiction
What He Said To His Enemies
What Is Given, What Is Not Given
When The Flag Is Raised
Where The Soft Air Lives
The White Road
Who's Who, 1941
With The Greeks
Wood
Writer's Conference
Yellow Glove
You Have To Be Careful
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
At Mother Teresa's
Blood
Breaking My Favorite Bowl
The Brick
Catalogue Army
Defining White
A Definite Shore
Dew
The Endless Indian Nights
For Luke, Leaving Us
French Movies
The Garden Of Abu Mahmoud
The Gardener
Going For Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas
Grateful
Hawaiian Punch Prayer, August
Hello
Her Way
The House In The Heart
House With No One In It
Jerusalem (2)
Leo
Looking For The Cat Grave
Lunch In Nablus City Park
The Man Who Hated Tress
The Man Who Makes Brooms
Moon Trio
Mother Of Nothing
My Uncle Mohammed At Mecca, 1981
New Year
News Travelling Well
No One Thinks Of Tegucigalpa
Office 337, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley
Old Iron
Over The Fence
Pablo And I Have Lunch
Pakistan With Open Arms
Rain
Ropes
Some Relief To Think Of Stars
The Spacious Air
Spruce Street, Berkeley
Streets
Sure
Telling The Story
The Thinly Fluted Wings Of Stamps
Till Now
The Traveling Onion
Trying To Name What Doesn't Change
The Tunnel Of Questions
Two Countries
The Use Of Fiction
What He Said To His Enemies
What Is Given, What Is Not Given
When The Flag Is Raised
Where The Soft Air Lives
The White Road
Who's Who, 1941
With The Greeks
Wood
Writer's Conference
Yellow Glove
You Have To Be Careful
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
