A Maze Me (6 page)
Authors: Naomi Shihab Nye
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and four Pushcart Prizes. Her collection
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
was a finalist for the National Book Award. She says of
A Maze Me,
“Whenever I meet a girl who's about eleven or twelve or thirteen or even older, I want to talk to her. Ask her things. See what she's looking at, off beyond the world we can see together. It's a huge time in life, that delicious and complicated movement from one era to another, and it can feel like a treasure or a precipice or both. I remember it well.”
The poet lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.
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A MAZE ME: POEMS FOR GIRLS
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“Every Cat Has a Story” appeared in
Instructor.
“Little Blanco River” appeared in
Poetry from A to Z,
edited by Paul Janeczko.
“Messages from Everywhere” appeared in
Creative Classroom.
“Mona's Taco” appeared in
The Texas Observer.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nye, Naomi Shihab.
A maze me : poems for girls / by Naomi Shihab Nye
  p.  cm.
“Greenwillow Books.”
ISBN 0-06-058189-1 (trade). ISBN 0-06-058190-5 (lib. bdg.)
EPub Edition © May 2015 ISBN 9780062340757
1. GirlsâJuvenile poetry. 2. Children's poetry, American. 3. Maturation (Psychology)âJuvenile poetry. [1. GirlsâPoetry. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)âPoetry. 3. American poetry.] I. Title: Amaze me. II. Title.
PS3564.Y44S94 2005 811'.54âdc22 2004003283
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