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    Naomi Shihab Nye

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    Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist born to an American mother and Palestinian father. She gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. The poem "The List" is about a man who calculated the exact number of books he would be able to read before he died based on his life expectancy. He made a list of necessary books to read from different genres and time periods but gave up frivolous reading. The speaker feels sad about his organized plan as it misses out on unwritten books, recommendations from friends, and serendipitous discoveries in libraries.

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    Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist born to an American mother and Palestinian father. She gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. The poem "The List" is about a man who calculated the exact number of books he would be able to read before he died based on his life expectancy. He made a list of necessary books to read from different genres and time periods but gave up frivolous reading. The speaker feels sad about his organized plan as it misses out on unwritten books, recommendations from friends, and serendipitous discoveries in libraries.

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    Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist born to an American mother and Palestinian father. She gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. The poem "The List" is about a man who calculated the exact number of books he would be able to read before he died based on his life expectancy. He made a list of necessary books to read from different genres and time periods but gave up frivolous reading. The speaker feels sad about his organized plan as it misses out on unwritten books, recommendations from friends, and serendipitous discoveries in libraries.

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    Naomi Shihab Nye

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    Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist born to an American mother and Palestinian father. She gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. The poem "The List" is about a man who calculated the exact number of books he would be able to read before he died based on his life expectancy. He made a list of necessary books to read from different genres and time periods but gave up frivolous reading. The speaker feels sad about his organized plan as it misses out on unwritten books, recommendations from friends, and serendipitous discoveries in libraries.

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    Naomi Shihab Niye

    A poet, songwriter, and novelist.


    Born to an American mother and Palestinian father. Nye gives voice to her experience as an ArabAmerican through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. Poets.Org

    The List
    A man told me he had calculated the exact number of books he would be able to read before he died by figuring the average number of books he read per month and his probable earth span, (averaging how long his dad and grandpa had lived, adding on a few years since he exercised more than they did). Then he made a list of necessary books, nonfiction mostly, history, philosophy, fiction, and poetry from different time periods so there wouldnt be large gaps in his mind. He had given up frivolous reading entirely. There are only so many days.

    Oh, I felt sad to hear such an organized plan. What about the books that arent written yet, the books his friends might recommend that arent on the list, the yummy magazine that might fall into his hand at a silly moment after all? What about the mystery search through the delectable library shelves? I felt the heartbeat of forgotten precious books calling for his hand.

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