{"id":4987,"date":"2019-03-02T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:47:39","slug":"voices-in-the-air-poems-for-listeners-teen-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2019\/voices-in-the-air-poems-for-listeners-teen-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners — Teen Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

review by\u00a0Nina Dinan, age 15<\/p>\n

Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners<\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Naomi Shihab Nye<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In this lovely collection of free verse poems written in a serene, contemplative tone, Naomi Shihab Nye explores a variety of subjects. Her poems include wistful exaltations of nature, laments written for Palestine, and soaring tributes to fellow poets. Even her introduction is beautifully poetic, setting the tone for the collection. Nye writes, \u201cNot so long ago we were never checking anything in our hands, scrolling down, pecking with a finger, obsessively tuning in\u2026 In those archaic but still vivid days, there might be a meandering walk into trees, an all-day bike ride, a backyard picnic, a gaze into a stream, a plunge into a sunset, a conversation with pines, a dig in the dirt, to find our messages.\u201d These poems act as a soft reminder to seek such messages, and to listen for the voices in the air.<\/span>
\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My favorite poems in this collection are those honoring poets. There are verses devoted to Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Langston Hughes, among others. The poem \u201cEmily\u201d begins, \u201cWhat would you do if you knew \/ that even during wartime \/ scholars in Baghdad \/ were translating your poems \/ into Arabic \/ still believing \/ in the thing with feathers?\u201d In the wonderful poem \u201cTell Us All the Gossip You Know,\u201d Nye honors several poets and authors, including Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Emily Dickinson. Another poem I enjoyed was \u201cThe Tent,\u201d which ends with these beautiful lines: \u201cEven at night in a desert, temperatures plummet, \/ billowing tent flaps murmur to one another.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys poetry. 3.5\/5 stars. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Find this book in our catalog:\u00a0Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners<\/a><\/p>\n

Catalog Number: J 811.6 NYE<\/p>\n

190 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

review by\u00a0Nina Dinan, age 15 Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by\u00a0Naomi Shihab Nye \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In this lovely collection of free verse poems written in a serene, contemplative tone, Naomi Shihab Nye explores a variety of subjects. Her poems include wistful exaltations of nature, laments written for Palestine, and soaring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":4988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2019\/02\/voices-in-the-air.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-1ir","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5477,"url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2020\/shout-the-true-story-of-a-survivor-who-refused-to-be-silenced-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":4987,"position":0},"title":"Shout: The True Story of a Survivor Who Refused to be Silenced — Teen Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"February 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Review by Nina Dinan, 16 Shout: The True Story of a Survivor Who Refused to be Silenced\u00a0By Laurie Halse Anderson In the poem \u201cemergency, in three acts\u201d, Laurie Halse Anderson recounts her experience giving a speech at a New Jersey high school. 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