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Is This Forever, or What?
Poems & Paintings from Texas
By Nye, Naomi Shihab
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06051-178-4 978-0-06051-179-1
- Publisher
- Greenwillow
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2004
Gr 5-Up These contemporary poems and paintings (by poets and artists who will be largely unfamiliar to readers) are grouped into sections and "interludes" that revolve around universal themes. In the section titled "Is This Forever, Or What?" the pantoum, "At Sixteen," by well-known poet Edward Hirsch is followed by Travis Ian Smith's "Giant, Red Hibiscus," an instantly recognizable love poem that revolves around a very Texan image: "And I would like to watch you watch the hibiscus/in early morning, /...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2004
In this big, lush volume, 140 Texans, in verse and art, address matters unique to the state and common to humanity. Humor, mystery, and a distinctly contemporary sensibility mark both the poems and the paintings, but central to them all is a hugeness and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
