Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Poems
Book - 2015 | First edition
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country.
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Publisher:
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780393353631
039335363X
9780393248500
039324850X
039335363X
9780393248500
039324850X
Call Number:
811.5 H282c 2015
Characteristics:
xvi, 139 pages ; 22 cm
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List - Everybody Reads 2020: Native Voices: Own voices memoir, poetry and novels by Indigenous people.
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Aug 08, 2019
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Aug 08, 2019
A musical, magical and resilient poetry volume from the first Native American United States Poet Laureate. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.
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As a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma Joy Harjo is the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.
I heartily recommend listening as she sings & speaks her powerful lyrical stories of knowing and nurturing.
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Joy Harjo is our first Native American (Muscogee) US Poet Laureate, from Tulsa, Oklahoma. This collection has some real gems and I like the various formats in her music-like poetry. Very enjoyable.
Easy to read. Popular kitchen-table poetry. For American preteens.