Cast Away: Poems of Our Time

Naomi Shihab Nye

Acclaimed Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines
a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to
those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty poems. A
deeply moving, sometimes funny, and always provocative poetry
collection for all ages.
With poems about food wrappers, lost mittens, plastic straws, refugee
children, trashy talk, the environment, connection, community,
responsibility to the planet, politics, immigration, time, junk mail, trash
collectors, garbage trucks, all that we carry and all that we discard,
this is a rich, engaging, moving, and sometimes humorous collection
for readers ages 8 to adult.