This Same Sky A Collection of Poems from Around the World,9780689806308

This Same Sky A Collection of Poems from Around the World

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ISBN13: 9780689806308
ISBN10: 0689806302
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-05-01
Publisher(s): Aladdin
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Summary

From the East and from the West, from across the oceans, from places where it is tomorrow or even yesterday, from 68 countries come 129 unforgettable voices that will thrill, sadden, surprise, and exhilarate. An ALA Notable Children's Book. A Booklist Editors' Choice.

Author Biography

Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words Under the Words. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the young adult novel Habibi, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison.

Table of Contents

Introduction xii
House of Spring
5(4)
Muso Soseki
WORDS AND SILENCES: ``Sawdust from under the Saw''
``Once I got a postcard from the Fiji Islands''
9(1)
Jaan Kaplinski
Old Mountains Want to Turn to Sand
10(1)
Tommy Olofsson
The Meaning of Simplicity
11(1)
Yannis Ritsos
Poetry Was Like This
12(2)
Al Mahmud
The Pen
14(1)
Muhammad al-Ghuzzi
The Question Mark
14(1)
Gevorg Emin
The Gatherer
15(1)
Ali al-mak
Lizard
16(1)
Bundgard Povlsen
Between Ebb and Flow
17(2)
Fadwa Tuqan
Crowned Crane
19(1)
A Tree Within
20(1)
Octavio Paz
A Short Story
20(1)
David Escobar Galindo
Life of the Cricket
21(1)
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Coils the Robot
22(1)
Floria Herrero Pinto
from Altazor
23(1)
Vicente Huidobro
Paper Doll
24(1)
Guadalupe Morfin
Distances of Longing
24(1)
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
At the Beach
25(1)
Kemal Ozer
Monkeys
26(1)
Klara Koettner-Benigni
Freedom
27(1)
Wimal Dissanayake
Lamento
28(1)
Thomas Transtromer
Wordless Day
29(4)
Chang Shiang-hua
DREAMS AND DREAMERS: ``Eyes the Color of Sky''
In the Kitchen
33(1)
Jean Joubert
A Headstrong Boy
34(2)
Gu Cheng
Wanting to Move
36(1)
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
The Cucumber
37(1)
Nazim Hikmet
The Tin Bird
38(1)
Ramon C. Sunico
On My Birthday
39(1)
Farhad Mazhar
The Orphan
40(1)
Mohammad al-Maghut
WilPeace
41(1)
Yehuda Amichai
Healing
42(1)
Yannis Ritsos
Happy as a Dos's Tail
42(1)
Anna Swir
Picnic to the Earth
43(1)
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Why There Are No Cats in the Forest
44(1)
Simeon Dumdum Jr
Song
45(1)
Cecilia Meireles
The Sick-Room
46(1)
R. A. Simpson
The Shadow Inside Me
46(1)
Tommy Olofsson
``One day I asked the mirror facing me''
47(1)
Tialuga Sunia Seloti
The Prison Cell
48(2)
Mohmud Darwish
A Sailor's Memoirs
50(2)
Muhammad al-Fayiz
``Where is the heart I am calling?''
52(1)
Roberto Juarroz
Day-Dream
52(1)
Samarendra Sengupta
The Parakeets
53(1)
Alberto Blanco
A Dream of Paradise in the Shadow of War
54(1)
Muneer Niazi
Salt and Memory
55(1)
Zoltan Zelk
My Great Grand Uncle
56(1)
Tarapada Ray
Magic
57(4)
Dahlia Ravikovitch
FAMILIES: ``The First Tying''
Wolf-Ancestry
61(1)
Vasko Popa
To the Ancestprs
62(1)
Childhood
63(1)
Jean Joubert
Remembering
64(1)
Xue Di
Sparrow
65(1)
Transformations
65(1)
Taduesz Rozewicz
Souvenir of the Ancient World
66(1)
Carlos Drummond De Andrade
Industrial Childhood
67(1)
Sharon Stevenson
I Was Born in jacinto Vera
68(1)
Liber Falco
Weights
69(1)
Les Murray
Small Wants
70(2)
Bibhu Padhi
Believe It or Not
72(1)
Nicolai Kantchev
Brownout
73(1)
Tony Perez
Atong
74(1)
Benilda S. Santos
Atong and His Goodbye
75(1)
Benilda S. Santos
Father and Son
76(1)
Tomasz Jastrun
Petrified Minute
77(1)
Zoltan Zelk
Companion
77(1)
Manjush Dasgupta
A Pearl
78(1)
Fawziyya Abu Khalid
A New Dress
79(1)
Ruth Dallas
Vitasp
80(1)
Gieve Patel
Poem for My Son
81(1)
Bibhu Padhi
An Appoinment
82(1)
Chang Shiang-hua
The First Shoe
83(1)
Maire Mhac an tSaoi
Grandmother
83(1)
Sameeneh Shirazie
My Life Story
84(2)
Lan Nguyen
The Mushroom River
86(1)
Xue Di
Letter from My Son
87(1)
Shihab Sarkar
Summer
88(1)
Jayanta Mahaparatra
Jasmine
89(1)
Kyongioo Hong Ryou
Footpath
90(1)
Stella Ngatho
Family Portrail
91(4)
Eka Budianta
THIS EARTH AND SKY IN WHICH WE LIVE: ``Water That used to Be a Cloud''
Mindoro
95(1)
Ramon C. Sunico
Dawn
96(1)
Edith Sodergran
Grass
97(1)
Tom Kristensen
The Land of Mists
98(1)
Kwang-Kyu Kim
Spring Poem
99(1)
Colleen Thibaudeau
Dew
100(1)
Linus Suryadi AG
``Beside a Stone three''
100(1)
Christine M. Krishnasami
Country Memory
101(1)
Leticia Herrera Alvarez
Cuernavaca
102(1)
Aline Pettersson
Mountain Tambourine
102(1)
Peter van Toorn
``The sodden moos sinks underfoot...,''
103(1)
Ales Debeljak
Improvisation (Eching)
104(1)
Kevin Perryman
``Greedy snowside''
105(1)
The Sky Is Vast
106(1)
Parmila Khadun
The Penguin
107(1)
Ricardo Yanez
The Open Shutter
108(1)
Karl Krolow
Wind's Foam
109(1)
Al Mahmud
The Squirrel
110(1)
Saleem Barakat
The Birth of a Stone
111(1)
Kwang-kyu Kim
Caring for Animals
112(1)
Jon Silkin
Autumn and the Sea
113(1)
Javier Heraud
Pitcher
114(1)
Renee ferrer de Arrellaga
Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth
115(1)
Cat
116(1)
Jibananda Das
The Moon Rises Slowly over the Ocean
117(1)
Xu De-min
Stars at Night
118(1)
Iku Takenaka
The Pit Ponies
119(2)
Leslie Norris
Great Aso
121(1)
Tatsuji Miyoshi
Ants
122(1)
Yusuf al-Sa'igh
from Diary of a Woodcutter
122(2)
Fuad Rifka
Under This Sky
124(5)
Zia Hyder
LOSSESS: ``Kissed Trees''
``What is it that upsets the Volcanoes...,''
129(1)
Pablo Neruda
There's an Orange Tree Out Three
130(1)
Alfonso Quijada Urias
Horse by Moonlight
130(1)
Alberto Blanco
A Tree
131(1)
Klara Koettner-Benigni
Love
132(1)
Tymoteusz Karpowicz
A Brief Note to the Bag lady, Ma Sister
133(3)
Yusuf Eradam
A Man Never Cries
136(1)
Jose Craveirinha
Surprise
137(1)
Blanca Rodriguez
``Oh! Oh! Should They Take Away My Stove...'' My Inxehaustible Ode to Joy
138(1)
Miron Bialoszewski
A Train is Passing
139(1)
Poul Borum
A Gift Horse
139(1)
Alamgir Hashmi
In the Labasese Mountains
140(2)
Nadia Tueni
The Garden of a Child
142(1)
Nirendranath Chakravarti
Bicycles
143(1)
Anderi Voznesensky
The memory of Horses
144(1)
Rolf Jacobsen
Inside
145(1)
Kim Chiha
Home
146(1)
Nasima Aziz
Before the Game
147(4)
Vasko Popa
HUMAN MYSTERIES: ``White Bracelets''
Napoleon
151(1)
Miroslav Holub
Locked In
152(1)
Ingemar Leckius
Debt
153(1)
Sunay Akin
A Boy's Head
154(1)
Miroslav Holub
The Ship's Whistle
155(1)
Tarapada Ray
Sweet Like a Crow
155(2)
Michael Ondaatje
Volunteer Worker
157(1)
Tony Perez
Behind bars
158(1)
Fadwa Tuqan
On Destiny
159(1)
Shuntaro Tanikawa
For Genevieve
160(1)
Simeon Dumdum, Jr.
Childhood Is the Only Lasting Flower
161(1)
Ramon Diaz Eterovic
Goodness
162(1)
Benny Andersen
The Rhythm of the Tomtom
163(1)
Antonio Jacinto
``Do what do you like with my face,''
164(1)
Amanda Aizpuriete
The New Suit
165(1)
Nidia Sanabria de Romero
White Bracelets
166(1)
Collen Thibaudeau
I Have Ten Legs
167(1)
Anna Swir
The Tongue
167(1)
Pia Tafdrup
``A man Comes, in his suit crumpled,''
168(1)
Sergei Timofeyev
Greenland's History
169(2)
Sven Holm
The Wall
171(1)
Tania Diaz Castro
Jerusalem
172(1)
Yehuda Amichai
``There are times when I can't move''
172(1)
Roberto Juarroz
``In his room the man watches''
173(1)
Homero Aridjis
The Indians
174(2)
Roberto Sosa
The Labourer
176(1)
Toolsy Daby
Clouds on the Sea
177(1)
Ruth Dallas
Or
178(2)
Ali Darwish
My Share
180(1)
Salih Bolat
Pride
181(1)
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Lusia
182(2)
Lucia Casalinuovo
Far and Close
184(1)
Gu Cheng
At the Ferry
185(4)
Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
Notes on the Contributors 189(9)
Map 198(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading 201(2)
Acknowledgments 203(6)
Index to Countries 209(2)
Index to Poets 211

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