Honeybee : poems & short prose

Summary:

"In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed"--Front jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9780060853907
ISBN: 0060853905
ISBN: 9780060853914
ISBN: 0060853913
Physical Description: 164 pages ; 19 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, 2008.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Your buddy is typing -- Someone you will not meet -- A stone so big you could live in it -- Museum -- For my desk -- Communication skills -- The United States is not the world -- Taverne du passage -- Wee path -- Password -- The frogs did not forget -- Missing it -- The crickets welcome me to Japan -- Ted Kooser is my president -- How we talk about it -- Culture of life -- Missing Thomas Jefferson -- Don't say -- Running egret -- Lion Park -- The little bun of hours -- Pollen -- Honeybees drinking -- Weird hurt -- We are the people -- Help with your homework -- Busy bee takes a break -- Bees were better -- Invisible -- Girls, girls -- What happened to the air -- Slump -- Deputies raid Bexar cockfight -- Accuracy -- This is not a dog urinal -- Argument -- There was no wind -- Companions.

For a hermit -- Letters my prez is not sending -- Broken -- The cost -- Friendly postal clerk, Saturday morning -- While you were out -- Driving to Abilene in the pouring rain -- Cinnamon twist -- Sunday -- We are not nothing -- Our best selves -- The dirtiest 4-letter word -- RSVP -- Boathouse -- The problem of muchness -- How do I know when a poem is finished? -- Excuse me but -- Bears -- Pacify -- To one now grown -- Watch your language -- Cat plate -- Click -- Hibernate -- My president went -- Texas swing low -- From an island -- The white cat -- Ducks in couples -- Campaigning door to door -- Parents of murdered Palestinian boy donate his organs to Israelis -- Before I read the kite runner -- The first time I was old -- Useless -- Jonathan's kiwi cake -- Consolation -- For Rudolf Staffel -- Hot stone masage -- Regular days -- Last day of school -- Young drummer leaving Alamo Music Company -- The room in which we are every age at once -- Gate A-4.

Awards Note:

Arab American Book Award, 2009