Understanding the “Other” in Naomi Shihab Nye’s You & Yours

As a significant ethnic group in the United States, Arab American poets have always used personal to tackle larger political themes their poetry. Many writers reacted events around them, such as 9/11, and this includes Naomi Shihab Nye. In “Naomi Nye’s Aesthetic of Smallness Military Sublime,” Samina Najmi argues that few critics who write about Nye do not focus on her “overtly political” 9/11 deals with theme You & Yours directing reader’s attention outcomes war torn territoires Middle East. Yours, repeatedly educates readers by invoking sympathy for other observing way life, eventually allowing reader see reality they rarely observe news; suffering, pain humane part “Other.”