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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
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publish Date | January 17, 2004 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780393325348 |
| Dimensions | 9.1 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
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.
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.-- "Publishers Weekly"
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
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