A Map to the Next World

A Map to the Next World PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393047905
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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The poet author of The Woman Who Fell from the Sky draws on her own Native American heritage in a collection of lyrical poetry that explores the cruelties and tragedies of history and the redeeming miracles of human kindness.

A Map to the Next World

A Map to the Next World PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393047905
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
The poet author of The Woman Who Fell from the Sky draws on her own Native American heritage in a collection of lyrical poetry that explores the cruelties and tragedies of history and the redeeming miracles of human kindness.

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345807
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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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.

A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales

A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345793
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."—Wilma Mankiller In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324075341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.

She Had Some Horses

She Had Some Horses PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333421X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.

The Spiral of Memory

The Spiral of Memory PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472220225
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. Over the past two decades, Harjo has refined and perfected a unique poetic voice that speaks her multifaceted experience as Native American, woman and Westerner in twentieth-century society. The Spiral of Memory gathers the conversations in which Harjo has articulated her singular yet universal perspective on the world and her poetry. She reflects upon the nuances and development of her art, the importance of her origins, the arduous reconstruction of the tribal past, the dramatic confrontation between Native American and Anglo civilizations, the existential and artistic itinerary through present-day America, and other provocative and profoundly human themes. Joy Harjo is the author of several volumes of poetry. She received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Before Columbus Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America. She is Professor of English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Laura Coltelli is Associate Professor of American Literature, University of Pisa.

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867927
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.

Bone Map

Bone Map PDF Author: Sara Johnson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319190
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. “All moments will shine if you cut them open. / Will glisten like entrails in the sun.” With figurative language that makes long, associative leaps, and with metaphors and images that continually resurrect themselves across poems, the collection builds and transforms its world through a locomotive echo—a regenerative force—that comes to parallel the psychic quest for redemption that unfolds in its second half. The result is a deeply affecting composition that will establish the already decorated young author as an important and vital new voice in American poetry.

Native American Writers

Native American Writers PDF Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438134398
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Book Description
Presents a collection of critical essays analyzing modern Native American writers including Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and more.

Secrets from the Center of the World

Secrets from the Center of the World PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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"My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's photographs lead you to that place," writes Joy Harjo. "The camera eye becomes a space you can move through into the powerful landscapes that he photographs. The horizon may shift and change all around you, but underneath it is the heart with which we move." Harjo's prose poems accompany these images, interpreting each photograph as a story that evokes the spirit of the Earth. Images and words harmonize to evoke the mysteries of what the Navajo call the center of the world.