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Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years  Cover Image Book Book

Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years / Joy Harjo ; with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros.

Harjo, Joy, (author.). Cisneros, Sandra, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1324036486
  • ISBN: 9781324036487
  • Physical Description: xviii, 127 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The last song -- Are you still there? -- Anchorage -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak -- The woman hanging from the thirteenth-floor window -- Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back -- My house is the red earth -- Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Bird -- Rainy Dawn -- Santa Fe -- Eagle poem -- The creation story -- A postcolonial tale -- The dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here -- A map to the next world -- Emergence -- The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles -- Equinox -- It's raining in Honolulu -- When the world as we knew it ended -- For calling the spirit back from wandering the Earth in its human feet -- Rabbit is up to tricks -- No -- This morning I pray for my enemies -- Praise the rain -- Speaking tree -- Fall song -- Sunrise -- Break my heart -- Washing my mother's body -- How to write a poem in a time of war -- Running -- My man's feet -- Tobacco origin story -- Redbird love -- An American sunrise -- Frog in a dry river -- Prepare -- The life of beauty -- How love blows through the trees -- Sundown walks to the edge of the story -- Somewhere -- Without.
Subject: Harjo, Joy > Family > Poetry.
American poetry > 21st century.
Creek Indians > History > Poetry.
Indians of North America > Poetry.
Genre: Poetry.

Available copies

  • 3 of 6 copies available at Sage Library System.

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Baker Halfway Branch 811.54 .H282w 2023 (Text) 37814003616654 NON-FICTION - NEW In transit -
Columbia Gorge Community College Library Poetry HARJO 2023 (Text) 39705000082635 New Book Shelf In process -
Hood River County Library 811 HAR 2022 (Text) 33892100833152 Adult Non-Fiction Checked out 04/23/2025
Hood River Valley High School Library 811.54 HAR (Text) 33892006130539 NON-FICTION Available -
Pendleton Public Library 811.6 H225 (Text) 37801000711570 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
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