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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jan 17th, 2004
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.00in - 0.80in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780393325348
- Categories: • Native American• American - General
About the Author
Harjo, Joy: - Joy Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is the author of several poetry collections, memoirs, children's books, and music albums. She is the recipient of many awards for her creative work, including a National Humanities Medal. She lives in Oklahoma.
Praise for this book
I turn and return to Harjo's poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language.--Adrienne Rich
Show[s] the remarkable progression of a writer determined to reconnect with her past and make sense of her present, drawing together the brutalities of contemporary reservation life with the beauty and sensibility of Native American culture and mythology....Alive with compassion, pain and love, this book is unquestionably an act of kindness.-- "Publishers Weekly"
