How we became human: new and selected poems [1975 - 2001]

✍ Scribed by Harjo, Joy

• Book ID: 100590332
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 116 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0393325342

✦ Synopsis

Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.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. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.

✦ Subjects

Nature -- Poetry