In this collection of 84 poems, poet Naomi Shihab Nye presents thoughts on the way we treat the world as disposable. She writes of thrown-away items and lost things that fill the spaces around us. Not only material things but also people like immigrants and refugees are written about as cast aways most don't even consider.
The poems can be appreciated individually or as a collection that will open eyes and minds to what Nye sees as sad waste we should contemplate in our everyday lives. CAST AWAY would be the perfect text for classes looking into the global crisis of pollution and the hazards to our environment of man-made trash.
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