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Living nations, living words : an anthology of first peoples poetry / collected and with an introduction by Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate ; foreword by Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393867916
  • 0393867919
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Foreword / Carla D. Hayden -- Introduction / Joy Harjo -- Becoming/East. Daybreak / Jake Skeets -- B 'o E-a:g maṣ 'ab Him g Ju:kĭ/It is going to rain -- Maoli / Imaikalani Kalahele -- Heritage, X / Elise Paschen -- Off-Island CHamorus / Craig Santos Perez -- welcoming home living beings / Susan Shown Harjo -- Wichihaka/The one I live with / ray Young Bear -- Indigenous Physics: The element colonization / Deborah A. Miranda -- Coquille / Elizabeth Woody -- dt Baby out of cut-open woman / Heather Cahoon -- Notes from Coosa / Jennifer Elise Foerster -- 1918 Union Valley Road Oklahoma / Leanne Howe -- The rhetorical feminine / Laura Da' -- Current I / Lehua M. taitano -- These rivers remember / Roberta Hill -- Anchorage, 1989 / Cathy Tagnak Rexford -- Exile of memory / Joy Harjo -- Center/North-South. River people--The lost watch -- Old humptulips / Duan Niatum -- thirteen ways of looking at an Indian / Anita Endrezze -- I gotta be Indian tomorrow / Nila NOrthsun -- This island on which I love you / Brandy Nálani Mcdougall -- Timiaq, something carried / Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen -- Palominos near Tuba City / Denise Sweet -- Advice to myself / Louise Erdrich -- Thought / Henry Real Bird -- Hell's acre / Sy Hoahwah -- Rookeries / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- The book of the missing, murdered and Indigenous--Chapter 1 / M.L. Smoker -- Like any good Indian woman / tanaya Winder -- Poem on disappearance / Kimberly Blaeser -- Na wai eā, The freed waters / MahealaniPerez-Wendt -- Dt Departure/West. This river / Kim Shuck -- Trudell / Alex Jacobs -- Transplant: after Georgia O'Keefe's Pelvis IV, 1944 / B: William Bearhart -- Resilience / Marcie Rendon -- In the field / Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya -- Shapeshifters banned, censored, or otherwise shit-listed, aka chosen family poem / N'u Revilla -- Antiquing with Indians / Tiffany Midge -- Angry Red Planet / Eric Gansworth -- From Dissolve / Sherwin Bitsui -- What did you learn here? (Old man house, Suquamish) -- Within dinétah the People's spirit remains strong / Laura Tohe -- Resolution 2 / Layli Long Soldier -- Ilíígo Naalyéhé: Goods of value / Lluci Tapahonso -- Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.
Summary: "A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.""-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: FPL Indigenous Peoples' Day for All Ages | Poetry Month | Indigenous Voices
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.008 L785 Available 33111011193816
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.

This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project--including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others--to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship." In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.

Includes index.

Foreword / Carla D. Hayden -- Introduction / Joy Harjo -- Becoming/East. Daybreak / Jake Skeets -- B 'o E-a:g maṣ 'ab Him g Ju:kĭ/It is going to rain -- Maoli / Imaikalani Kalahele -- Heritage, X / Elise Paschen -- Off-Island CHamorus / Craig Santos Perez -- welcoming home living beings / Susan Shown Harjo -- Wichihaka/The one I live with / ray Young Bear -- Indigenous Physics: The element colonization / Deborah A. Miranda -- Coquille / Elizabeth Woody -- dt Baby out of cut-open woman / Heather Cahoon -- Notes from Coosa / Jennifer Elise Foerster -- 1918 Union Valley Road Oklahoma / Leanne Howe -- The rhetorical feminine / Laura Da' -- Current I / Lehua M. taitano -- These rivers remember / Roberta Hill -- Anchorage, 1989 / Cathy Tagnak Rexford -- Exile of memory / Joy Harjo -- Center/North-South. River people--The lost watch -- Old humptulips / Duan Niatum -- thirteen ways of looking at an Indian / Anita Endrezze -- I gotta be Indian tomorrow / Nila NOrthsun -- This island on which I love you / Brandy Nálani Mcdougall -- Timiaq, something carried / Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen -- Palominos near Tuba City / Denise Sweet -- Advice to myself / Louise Erdrich -- Thought / Henry Real Bird -- Hell's acre / Sy Hoahwah -- Rookeries / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- The book of the missing, murdered and Indigenous--Chapter 1 / M.L. Smoker -- Like any good Indian woman / tanaya Winder -- Poem on disappearance / Kimberly Blaeser -- Na wai eā, The freed waters / MahealaniPerez-Wendt -- Dt Departure/West. This river / Kim Shuck -- Trudell / Alex Jacobs -- Transplant: after Georgia O'Keefe's Pelvis IV, 1944 / B: William Bearhart -- Resilience / Marcie Rendon -- In the field / Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya -- Shapeshifters banned, censored, or otherwise shit-listed, aka chosen family poem / N'u Revilla -- Antiquing with Indians / Tiffany Midge -- Angry Red Planet / Eric Gansworth -- From Dissolve / Sherwin Bitsui -- What did you learn here? (Old man house, Suquamish) -- Within dinétah the People's spirit remains strong / Laura Tohe -- Resolution 2 / Layli Long Soldier -- Ilíígo Naalyéhé: Goods of value / Lluci Tapahonso -- Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.

"A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.""-- Provided by publisher.

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