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Title: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems by Joy Harjo ISBN: 0-393-05101-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A hestitant five stars for an excellent poet
Comment: I have followed Harjo's poetry (and recorded music) for many years, ever since I saw her on PBS reading from "She Had Some Horses". This volume contains selections from her available books: "She Had Some Horses", "Secrets from the Center of the World", "In Mad Love and War", "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" and "A Map to the Next World". As is frequently the case, the selections for this book are not precisely the poems I would have chosen. It does include the most powerful poems, for example "She Had Some Horses" with it's pounding litany rhythms, "Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century" which is the title track of her cd, "The Creation Story" with its exquisite line "I never had the words / to carry a friend from her death / to the stars / correctly." Somewhat to my surprise, the poems from Secrets from the Center of the World which fit the photographs so precisely in their original context, also succeed as poetry only in this volume (although I'd still recommend the original).
New to me in this volume are the poems from her early chapbooks "The Last Song" and "What Moon Drove Me to This?" as well as new poems from 1999-2001. The chapbook poems are interesting as the beginning of Harjo's development as a poet as well as being interesting poems in their own right .."Four Horse Songs" and "I Am a Dangerous Woman" stand out. In the new material, "Morning Prayers" has memorable lines "the nothingness / is vast and stunning, / brims with details ..." as does "Faith" with "I might miss / The feet of god / Disguised as trees."
Harjo's poetry is strongly political - a Native peoples voice angry at the European invaders/immigrants. More importantly, her voice is one seeking a way to live well in contemporary society where living well requires memory of a time we lived with greater respect for our environment, greater responsibility for our network of relatives.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm speechless
Comment: It is profound, inspiring experience to read this collection. These writings are courageous and life-affirming.
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Title: A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo ISBN: 0393320960 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title:Letter from the End of the 20th Century ASIN: B000000PPX Publisher: Silver Wave Pub. Date: 20 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.98 |
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Title: Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America by Joy Harjo, Gloria Bird, Valerie Martinez ISBN: 0393318281 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Good Luck Cat by Paul Lee, Joy Harjo ISBN: 0152321977 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo ISBN: 1560251190 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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