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Jul 7, 2011
"Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your time." --Naomi Shihab Nye
Bill Moyers: Naomi Shihab Nye
Renowned poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes about button-hooks, onions and her grandmother's tea. Her poems speak of ordinary things -- things we take for granted until it's almost too late. For her poetry is a "conversation with the world, conversation with those words on the page, allowing them to speak back to you -- conversation with yourself." The daughter of a Palestinian father and an American mother, she's lived in old Jerusalem, in St. Louis, and now with her own family in San Antonio, Texas. Bill Moyers carries a poem of hers in his wallet, and interviews her here.
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