Summary
In this award-winning anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see girls, and how we all see the world -- often in very different ways, but suprisingly, wonderfully, sometimes very much the same.
Author Biography
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.
Paul B. Kaneczko has been a writer, poet, speaker, and teacher and has edited numerous distinguished anthologies for young people, including Poetspeak, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, the ALA Notable book, The Place My Words Are Looking For, and Poetry from A to Z: A Guide for Young Writers. His third book of poetry is That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems. He lives in Hebron, Maine, with his wife, Nadine, and their daughter, Emma.
Table of Contents
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Reflections |
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Heads on Fire |
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Two Set Out on Their Journey |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (2) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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Red Cross Lessons at City Park Pool |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance, 1981 |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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The Exciting New Concept of Art Therapy |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (2) |
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Black Patent Leather Shoes |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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For My Father's Mother Who Has Alzheimer's |
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58 | (3) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (4) |
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Foreign Exchange |
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66 | (1) |
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The Youngest Children of an Angel |
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68 | (1) |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (2) |
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All Their Names Were Vincent |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (2) |
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80 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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The Ubiquity of the Need for Love |
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90 | (1) |
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Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass it On |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (1) |
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The Passion and Woe in Marriage: A Ukranian Love Story |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (2) |
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The Real Names of Everything |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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To a Set of Drawing Pencils |
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121 | (1) |
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For the Woman at the Fast-Food Fish Place Who Called Me Pig |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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125 | (2) |
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Wheelchairs That Kneel Down Like Elephants |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (2) |
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139 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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The Teacher I Wanted to Be |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson's To-Do List |
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146 | (2) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (2) |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (2) |
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154 | (2) |
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Separate Longings |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (2) |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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When I Was Young on an Island |
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165 | (2) |
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How to Hug Your Three-Year-Old Daughter |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (1) |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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197 | (1) |
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Late, Watching Television |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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Driving My Parents Home at Christmas |
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201 | (1) |
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I Remember the Room Was Filled with Light |
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202 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (1) |
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The Congressman Visits the Grade School |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (2) |
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210 | (3) |
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213 | (4) |
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217 | (2) |
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Contributors' Notes |
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Acknowledgments |
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247 | (10) |
Index of Poems |
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Index to Female Poets |
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Index to Male Poets |
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