An American Sunrise: Poems
Title | An American Sunrise: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019-08-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1324003871 |
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest—and most complicated—poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Title | Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 2015-09-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393248518 |
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize
She Had Some Horses
Title | She Had Some Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 95 |
Release | 2008-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 039333421X |
A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.
Crazy Brave
Title | Crazy Brave PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2012-07-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393073467 |
A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
Title | How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2004-01-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393345807 |
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Title | Poet Warrior: A Memoir PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393248534 |
National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
A Branch of May
Title | A Branch of May PDF eBook |
Author | Lizette Woodworth Reese |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 76 |
Release | 1920 |
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