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How we became human : new and selected poems / Joy Harjo.

Harjo, Joy, (author.).

Summary:

"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." --content provided by Amazon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393325348
  • ISBN: 0393325342
  • Physical Description: xxviii, 242 pages : 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Norton, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
From: Thelast song (1975) (Puerto del Sol Press, chapbook no. 1): Watching crow, lookingsouth toward the Manzano Mountains ; -- "for a hopi silversmith" -- SanJuan Pueblo and South Dakota are 800 miles away on a map -- "he told mehis name was sitting bull" -- 3 a.m. -- "the last song" -- Areyou still there? -- Conversations between here and home. From: What moon droveme to this? (1979) ( I. Reed Books): Four horse songs -- I am a dangerous woman-- There was a dance, sweetheart -- Crossing the border -- Someone talking -- Fire.From: She had some horses (1983) (Thunder's Mouth Press): Call it fear -- Anchorage-- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak -- The womanhanging from the thirteenth floor window -- White bear -- Skeleton of winter --Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back. From:Secrets from the center of the world (1989) (University of Arizona Press): Myhouse is the red earth -- If you look with the mind of the swirling earth -- Ifall events are related -- This land is a poem -- Anything that matters -- Invisiblefish -- Don't bother the earth spirit -- It is an honor. From: In mad love andwar (1990) (Wesleyan University Press): Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna MaePictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Trickster-- Bird -- The real revolution is love -- Song for the deer and myself toreturn on -- Rainy dawn -- Santa Fe -- Desire -- The book of myths -- Transformations-- Eagle poem. From: The woman who fell from the sky (1994) (W.W. Norton):Reconciliation, a prayer -- The creation story -- The woman who fell from thesky -- The flood -- A postcolonial tale -- The myth of blackbirds -- The songof the house in the house -- Letter from the end of the twentieth century -- Promiseof blue horses -- The place the musician became a bear -- Fishing -- Promise --The dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here. From: A mapto the next world : poems and tales (2000) (W.W. Norton): Songline of dawn -- Amap to the next world -- The end -- Emergence -- Songs from the house of death,or, How to make it through to the end of a relationship -- The path to theMilky Way leads through Los Angeles -- The power of never -- Hold up -- Returningfrom the enemy -- The ceremony -- This is my heart -- Protocol -- Morning song.New poems, 1999-2001: In praise of earth -- Letter (with songline) to theBreathmaker -- I am not ready to die yet -- Naming -- Faith -- Equinox -- Ah,ah -- Morning prayers -- The everlasting -- And if I awaken in Los Angeles -- It'sraining in Honolulu -- Rushing the Pali -- When the world as we knew it ended.
Subject: Indians of North America > Poetry.
Navajo Indians > Poetry.
Indian women > Poetry.
Genre: Poetry.

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  • 4 of 4 copies available at Sage Library System.

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Baker County Library 811.54 .H282h 2002 (Text) 37814003247724 NON-FICTION Available -
Columbia Gorge Community College Library 811.54 HARJh 2002 (Text) 33892002402692 Main Collection Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande 811.54 H282a (Text) 35178001431454 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Treasure Valley Community College Library 811.54 H225h (Text) 32220001069653 Adult Non-Fiction Available -


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