I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You

A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

By: Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul B. Janeczko

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Paperback | 1 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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292 Pages

Age
14 - 99

Grade
9+

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23.0 x 17.4 x 2.2

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An award-winning anthology of paired poems by men and women.

In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see girls, and how we all see the world—often in very different ways, but surprisingly, wonderfully, sometimes very much the same.

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Introductions	p. xvii
Reflections	p. xxv
Heads on Fire
Two Set Out on Their Journey	p. 2
Over the Pass	p. 3
The Sky Is Blue	p. 4
A Geography of Lunch	p. 5
Sunday	p. 6
Paper Matches	p. 7
Snowmen	p. 7
Alloy	p. 8
For My Father	p. 10
Primer	p. 11
Vocation	p. 13
Telepathy	p. 14
Yellow Delicious	p. 15
The Apple-Eater	p. 16
Coloring Book	p. 17
On Foot I Had to Walk Through the Solar Systems	p. 19
The Pee Wee Coach	p. 19
Feminism	p. 21
Before Sleep	p. 23
Second Childhood	p. 24
What a Boy Can Do	p. 25
Red Cross Lessons at City Park Pool	p. 25
La Sequia	p. 27
My Father's Garden	p. 28
Two Facts	p. 29
Pokeberries	p. 29
Taking the Hands	p. 30
From Him	p. 31
The Belt	p. 31
Touch	p. 32
Size Is Relative	p. 33
Rose	p. 33
Boyhood Winter	p. 34
A Suburban Childhood	p. 35
Sins of the Fathers	p. 36
My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance, 1981	p. 37
The Mystery	p. 38
Gifts	p. 38
Father Falling	p. 39
Our Room	p. 40
Once a Long Time Ago	p. 41
Mattress Fire	p. 43
Step on His Head	p. 44
The Struggle	p. 45
Passages	p. 46
Looking for Him	p. 47
Remembering Brother Bob	p. 48
The Exciting New Concept of Art Therapy	p. 49
A Story	p. 52
The Lizard's Tango	p. 53
The Backup	p. 54
Black Patent Leather Shoes	p. 56
Short-Wave	p. 57
For My Father's Mother Who Has Alzheimer's	p. 58
I Just Wanna Testify	p. 61
Anti-Father	p. 62
Foreign Exchange
The Skokie Theatre	p. 66
The Youngest Children of an Angel	p. 67
He	p. 68
Foreign Exchange	p. 68
Fet Walks Melody Home	p. 70
Questions and Answers	p. 71
Steven Pudenz	p. 72
Dirty Panes	p. 73
Nineteen	p. 74
All Their Names Were Vincent	p. 76
The Inner Man	p. 77
The Locker Room	p. 78
In the Orchard	p. 80
Summer, At Home	p. 80
January	p. 81
Where Are You Going?	p. 83
Spoon	p. 84
Equality	p. 85
Hey Sweetie	p. 85
Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn	p. 86
Proposal	p. 87
Fish Fact	p. 88
The Ubiquity of the Need for Love	p. 89
Love	p. 90
Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass it On	p. 91
Performances	p. 93
Meaning Well	p. 94
Jump City	p. 95
The Passion and Woe in Marriage: A Ukranian Love Story	p. 95
Quarrel	p. 96
Your Hands	p. 97
Two Men	p. 98
January	p. 99
The Yellow Hills in Back	p. 100
For Night Comes	p. 101
Marriage	p. 102
Estrangements	p. 103
The Friendship	p. 104
Gone Away	p. 105
We Were Love	p. 105
Dressed Up	p. 106
With Reservations	p. 107
The Real Thing	p. 108
Astonishment	p. 109
Autobiography	p. 109
The Clothespin	p. 110
Surplus Blues	p. 111
This Woman	p. 112
Goodbye	p. 112
Elevator	p. 114
Namelessness	p. 115
Reach	p. 116
The Real Names of Everything
Ode to Tomatoes	p. 118
Canning Season	p. 119
It Happens Working	p. 120
To a Set of Drawing Pencils	p. 121
For the Woman at the Fast-Food Fish Place Who Called Me Pig	p. 122
Momma Sayings	p. 123
The Pyramid of Khufu	p. 125
Wheelchairs That Kneel Down Like Elephants	p. 127
The Previous Occupant	p. 127
Carpenter's Daughter	p. 129
War	p. 130
West Grand Boulevard	p. 130
Cow Worship	p. 131
Cow	p. 132
Typographical Errors	p. 133
Teaching Myself to Read	p. 133
Kitchens	p. 134
Living Lean	p. 135
The Old Dream Oven	p. 136
The Dream Kitchen	p. 137
A Plague of Telephones	p. 139
Long Distance Calls	p. 139
Mother	p. 140
The Teacher I Wanted to Be	p. 141
Lament for an Old Woman	p. 142
One Man's Family	p. 143
The Unwritten	p. 145
Emily Dickinson's To-Do List	p. 146
A Little Piece of Sky	p. 148
War Rug	p. 149
Plant Poem	p. 151
Letting the Parakeet Fly	p. 152
Small poems	p. 152
Elegy	p. 154
Separate Longings
Revelations, First Time	p. 156
Androgeny	p. 157
The Shapes of Leaves	p. 157
Images	p. 158
Burning the Dolls	p. 159
The Field Trip	p. 160
Summer Morning	p. 162
Depending on the Light	p. 164
August	p. 165
When I Was Young on an Island	p. 165
How to Hug Your Three-Year-Old Daughter	p. 167
4 daughters	p. 169
Disappearing	p. 169
Medusa Cement	p. 171
The Lion Tamer	p. 172
Tallness	p. 173
Who'd Want To Be A Man?	p. 174
To Be A Woman	p. 175
Lunchtime	p. 176
Peace	p. 177
The Onion Woman	p. 179
My Mother's Blue Vase	p. 180
Everyone	p. 181
String Affair	p. 182
The Family	p. 183
April Rape	p. 184
On M. Butterfly	p. 185
Tracing Back	p. 186
A Missed Opportunity	p. 187
Snow	p. 188
We Say	p. 190
Dennis's Sky Leopard	p. 191
Wild Strawberries	p. 193
Camellias	p. 194
Dressing My Daughter	p. 195
Fitting Room	p. 196
Beginnings	p. 197
Late, Watching Television	p. 198
Golden Season	p. 199
Dark Song	p. 200
Driving My Parents Home at Christmas	p. 201
I Remember the Room Was Filled with Light	p. 202
Was It	p. 202
Coats	p. 203
Romance	p. 203
Archaeology	p. 204
The Congressman Visits the Grade School	p. 205
The Secretary Chant	p. 206
Mountain Men	p. 201
Bali Hai Calls Mama	p. 208
Here I Am	p. 210
The Lost Girls	p. 213
Travelling Together	p. 217
Contributors' Notes	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 247
Index of Poems	p. 257
Index to Female Poets	p. 259
Index to Male Poets	p. 260
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