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Naomi Shihab Nye

Never in a Hurry

  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 2 години
    When my eye picked out a town named Nye on the map near Pendleton
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    It worked out. We stopped at every playground between San Antonio and Portland. (The best one, for anyone following our circuitous route, is at Baker, Oregon—an old-fashioned paradise of high slides and well-oiled merry-go-rounds.) We ate Japanese food in Santa Fe. We unrolled our moldy-smelling tent on a spot of ground in Utah and by morning were encircled by clamoring chipmunks, who had found a wealthy source of cracker crumbs. They were calling for more.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    It probably wouldn’t have made any difference had I told her that I happened to like the name, or that sometimes it’s a pleasure to become someone else midstream in your life. Had the name in question been Smithers or Lumpkin, I might have passed. But this little syllable, this glittering eye, held mine. I could almost have made it up.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    So, you’ve compromised yourself to marriage? I supposed you’d let a man publish your work?”—seemed nullified, erased. I’d walked out of that place, throat burning.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    The experience I’d had at a Women’s Writing Weekend in Austin where a visiting poet singled me out with displeasure—“What are these three names of yours?
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 3 години
    Later I would remember how the picnic table in our backyard spilled a rich offering of pies and green beans and potato salads, how the talk seemed infinite in its variety, how the laughter—“What a wacky idea, Babe!”—some Nye slapping me on the back with sudden gusto—rolled and rolled.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 4 години
    How could you tell someone you loved them too much? It sounded ridiculous, like you just didn’t want to get a job.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирапреди 4 години
    Never in a Hurry

    Essays on People and Places
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