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Title: Red Suitcase
Author: Baomi Shihab Nye
ISBN: 9781880238141
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 90
Publisher Description: 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. <BR>Valentine for Ernest Mann <BR>You can't order a poem like you order a taco.<BR>Walk up to the counter and say, I'll take two<BR>and expect it to handed back to you<BR>on a shiny plate. <BR>Still, I like you spirit.<BR>Anyone who says, Here's my address, <BR>write me a poem, deserves something in reply.<BR>So I'll tell a secret instead: <BR>poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, <BR>they are sleeping. They are the shadows<BR>drifting across our ceilings the moment<BR>before we wake up. What we have to do<BR>is live in a way that lets us find them. <BR>Once I knew a man who gave his wife<BR>two skunks for a valentine.<BR>He couldn't understand why she was crying.<BR>I thought they had such beautiful eyes.<BR>And he was serious. He was a serious man<BR>who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly<BR>just because the world said so. He really<BR>liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them<BR>as valentines and they became beautiful.<BR>At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding<BR>in the eyes of skunks for centuries<BR>crawled out and curled up at his feet. <BR>Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us<BR>we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock<BR>in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite.<BR>And let me know.
Author: Baomi Shihab Nye
ISBN: 9781880238141
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 90
Publisher Description: 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. <BR>Valentine for Ernest Mann <BR>You can't order a poem like you order a taco.<BR>Walk up to the counter and say, I'll take two<BR>and expect it to handed back to you<BR>on a shiny plate. <BR>Still, I like you spirit.<BR>Anyone who says, Here's my address, <BR>write me a poem, deserves something in reply.<BR>So I'll tell a secret instead: <BR>poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, <BR>they are sleeping. They are the shadows<BR>drifting across our ceilings the moment<BR>before we wake up. What we have to do<BR>is live in a way that lets us find them. <BR>Once I knew a man who gave his wife<BR>two skunks for a valentine.<BR>He couldn't understand why she was crying.<BR>I thought they had such beautiful eyes.<BR>And he was serious. He was a serious man<BR>who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly<BR>just because the world said so. He really<BR>liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them<BR>as valentines and they became beautiful.<BR>At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding<BR>in the eyes of skunks for centuries<BR>crawled out and curled up at his feet. <BR>Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us<BR>we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock<BR>in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite.<BR>And let me know.
