Fuel.(Review)

Poetry | March 1, 1999| | Copyright

Fuel, by Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Editions. $12.50.

Reading a poem in a magazine, like coming on an island in fog, can be a happy surprise: gathered in a slim volume, the islands turn into a peninsula--or sometimes into so big an island, like Australia, that they establish a continent. Set side by side, they talk among themselves, comment on each other, add, enrich, build subtext, resonate. They make their own intertextual harmonics. Laying one section of landscape against another, one portrait beside the next, they fashion a make-believe world that compensates for the ...

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