Harjo, Joy
Weaving sundown in a scarlet light fifty poems for fifty years Joy Harjo - First edition. - New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company 2023 - xviii, 127 pages 22 cm
Foreword / 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. by Sandra Cisneros --
"In this selection of poems Harjo, a three-term US Poet Laureate, celebrates her fifty years as a poet. While musical, intimate, political and wise, they intertwine ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. From her early discoveries for her own voice to moving reflections of our contemporary movement, she offers poems on birth, death, love, and resistance-- and everything they encompass."--Adapted from jacket. A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
9781324036487 1324036486
Harjo, Joy--Family--Poetry.
2000-2099
Creek Indians--History--Poetry.
American poetry--21st century.
Indians of North America--Poetry.
Poetry--American--Native American
Families
Native Americans--Poetry.
PS3558.A62423 / W43 2023 PS3558.A62423 / A6 2023
811.54 Har 14
Weaving sundown in a scarlet light fifty poems for fifty years Joy Harjo - First edition. - New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company 2023 - xviii, 127 pages 22 cm
Foreword / 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. by Sandra Cisneros --
"In this selection of poems Harjo, a three-term US Poet Laureate, celebrates her fifty years as a poet. While musical, intimate, political and wise, they intertwine ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. From her early discoveries for her own voice to moving reflections of our contemporary movement, she offers poems on birth, death, love, and resistance-- and everything they encompass."--Adapted from jacket. A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
9781324036487 1324036486
Harjo, Joy--Family--Poetry.
2000-2099
Creek Indians--History--Poetry.
American poetry--21st century.
Indians of North America--Poetry.
Poetry--American--Native American
Families
Native Americans--Poetry.
PS3558.A62423 / W43 2023 PS3558.A62423 / A6 2023
811.54 Har 14