"Author of numerous books of poems, including Transfer (BOA Editions, 2011); You and Yours (2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (Greenwillow Books, 2002), a collection of new and selected poems about the Middle East; Fuel (1998); Red Suitcase (1994); and Hugging the Jukebox (Far Corner Books, 1982). She is also the author of several books of poetry and fiction for children, including Habibi (Simon Pulse, 1997), for which she received the Jane Addams Children's Book award in 1998. ...Nye gives voice to her experience as
an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit."
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Some poems:
The Words Under the Words
Two Countries
The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat