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Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years / Joy Harjo ; with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 127 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1324036486
  • 9781324036487
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
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A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe ) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love.

In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo's "poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times" (Sandra Cisneros, Millions ).

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

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.

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