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xxviii, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
from: Last song (1975) (Puerto del Sol Press, chapbook no. 1): Watching crow, looking south toward the Manzano Mountains ;-- "for a hopi silversmith" -- San Juan Pueblo and South Dakota are 800 miles away on a map -- "he told me his name was sitting bull" -- 3 a.m. -- "the last song" -- Are you still there?-- Conversations between here and home. -- |
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from: What moon drove me 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. -- |
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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 -- Woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window -- White bear -- Skeleton of winter -- Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back. -- |
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from: Secrets from the center of the world (1989) (University of Arizona Press): My house is the red earth -- If you look with the mind of the swirling earth -- If all events are related -- This land is a poem -- Anything that matters -- Invisible fish -- Don't bother the earth spirit -- It is an honor. -- |
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from: In mad love and war (1990) (Wesleyan University Press): Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Trickster -- Bird -- Real revolution is love -- Song for the deer and myself to return on -- Rainy dawn -- Santa Fe -- Desire -- Book of myths -- Transformations -- Eagle poem. -- |
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from: Woman who fell from the sky (1994) (W.W. Norton): Reconciliation, a prayer -- Creation story -- Woman who fell from the sky -- Flood -- A postcolonial tale -- Myth of blackbirds -- Song of the house in the house -- Letter from the end of the twentieth century -- Promise of blue horses -- Place the musician became a bear -- Fishing -- Promise -- Dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here. -- |
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from: A map to the next world : poems and tales (2000) (W.W. Norton): Songline of dawn -- A map to the next world -- End -- Emergence -- Songs from the house of death, or, How to make it through to the end of a relationship -- Path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles -- Power of never -- Hold up -- Returning from the enemy -- Ceremony -- This is my heart -- Protocol -- Morning song. -- |
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New poems, 1999-2001: In praise of earth -- Letter (with songline) to the Breathmaker -- I am not ready to die yet -- Naming -- Faith -- Equinox -- Ah, ah -- Morning prayers -- Everlasting -- And if I awaken in Los Angeles -- It's raining in Honolulu -- Rushing the Pali -- When the world as we knew it ended. |
| 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."--Publisher description. |
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Indians of North America -- Poetry.
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Indians of North America. |
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Poetry.
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Navajo Indians -- Poetry.
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Navajo Indians. |
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Indian women -- Poetry.
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Indian women. |
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Poetry of places.
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Poetry of places. |
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Nature -- Poetry.
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Nature. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0393325342 |
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9780393325348 |
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