This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World

A beautiful collection of poems from around the world selected by renowned anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye.

This award-winning multicultural compilation of poetry introduces more than 125 poems from sixty-eight countries around the world, many translated into English for the first time, and offers glimpses of similarities across people despite cultural differences.

Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 05/01/1996
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780689806308
ISBN10: 0689806302
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Places | General

About the Author
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.