Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is a Palestinian American poet, songwriter and author best known for her work such as“Habibi” and her poems “Making a fist” and “Kindness”.
Nye was born in St. Louis in 1952 (“Poetry Foundation”). Her father was a Palestinian refugee and her mother an American with a German and Swiss descent. Nye spent most of her childhood in Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas, where she still now resides (“Naomi Shihab Nye”). In San Antonio, Nye graduated from Trinity University and earned her bachelor's in English. Nye has received numerous awards for both her poetry and her novels such as The Charity Randall Prize, Paterson Poetry Prize, The Lavan Award, and many Pushcart Prizes. She also has received fellowships at
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Nye has taken in many achievements since the beginning of her work. She is an author and editor of over 30 volumes.
“You and Yours” got Best Selling Poetry Book in 2006. “Honeybee” got Arab American Book in 2008 and “The Turtle of Oman” got Best Book in 2015(“Naomi Shihab Nye”). Not only does her work reach out to adults and minority groups of different ethnics, Nye has also been able to touch the hearts of youths all around with her children’s books and stories. “Habibi” and “Going Going” are two of her best known. Having the ability to talk to and understand young individuals makes Nye an even greater writer that brings them to aspire to be or reach her level in literacy.
Naomi’s writing style is heavily influenced by personal experiences. A certain way she writes the majority of her stories is by telling it through someone else’s point of view; the “Outsider” point of view. Her poems and her writing style are not bombarded with figurative speech and extravagant word choice. Simplicity and a sprinkle of imagery is all she needs to get her message across. “Nye is also considered one of the leading female poets of the American Southwest. A contributor to Contemporary Poets wrote that she “brings attention to the female as a humorous, very creative, with brisk, hard intelligence and a sense of personal freedom unheard of “in the history of pioneer women.” (“Naomi Shihab
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Joyce, James. "Araby." Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. By X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 4th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2012. 316-21. Print.
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...sed society with religious overtones throughout the poem, as though religion and God are placing pressure on her. The is a very deep poem that can be taken in may ways depending on the readers stature yet one thing is certain; this poem speaks on Woman’s Identity.
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In the poem Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye, the speaker is a person (male or female) who is a deep thinker and longs for wanting to be needed. The nine-stanza, 21 line poem goes through the different examples of nature, people or things and how they are valued by someone/something. It could be a buttonhole, a man walking down the street, a sleeping cat, or a tear, Nye connects that thing to something that relies on the object or person using simple but purposeful language. This happens throughout the entire poem until the last two stanzas, in the last two stanzas the speaker reveals how they want to be famous with more examples including things like “shuffling men who smile” and “sticky children in grocery lines,”. The poem overall is about a
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Al-wazedi N. - Hearing ‘Subaltern’ voices of resistance in works of Taslima Nasrin and Monica Ali, Ann Arbor International, 2008 Print.
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