How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
Joy Harjo
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
January 17, 2004
Pages
272
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.1 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393325348
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About the Author
Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and two memoirs, most recently Poet Warrior. The recipient of the 2023 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Reviews
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.
I turn and return to Harjo's poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language.--Adrienne Rich
I turn and return to Harjo's poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language.--Adrienne Rich
