Mint Snowball

by Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry. "Some of you may have encountered a wee chapbook of paragraphs from State Street Press called MINT that was first printed in 1991. If you were one of the people who liked that collection, or especially one of the generous teachers who used it in your classes, I thank you. This gathering contains some (not all) of those same pieces as well as more recent ones"—Naomi Shihab Nye, about MINT SNOWBALL.

Genres: Poetry

75 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her B.A. in English and world religions from Trinity University. She is a novelist, poet and songwriter.

She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2010.

Reviews

[Marisela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend for anyone who loves prose poetry.

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of my favorite prose poetry poets. Beautiful work.

[Anne Sanow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Consider this a three-and-a-half star review; I just couldn't quite go for four. I've read other pieces of hers, mostly short, compact poetic nonfiction pieces; I was looking forward to this because it's a collection of "paragraphs" that can also be considered prose poems. While her poetic talents are on display here and there, I found this pretty underdeveloped. Nothing wrong with artistic impressions and/or autobiographical material per se, but too many of these, for my taste, were less than either poetry or vignettes--kind of like pulling together a collection of witty things you wrote down on Post-It notes.

[Sophia Zuo · Rating 4 out of 5]

first time reading poetry in this format! pretty solid, very light musings about life, social justice, nature.

favorites:
- i was thinking of poems
- hammer and nails
- The endurance of Poth, Texas
- El Paso Sky
- Fairbanks

[Jennifer Dines · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful collection of very short flash/lyrical sketches. Almost poetry, but not.

[Linda Joy]

Lovely.

[Nour · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poems of note: This Is My Solemn Vow, Paris, El Paso Sky, Dallas Suburban, What Has Been Done to Women, Second-to-Last Words, Trouble with Spanish.