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020 9780393325348
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035 (OCoLC)149089703
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050 4 PS3558.A62423|bH69 2004
082 04 811.54|222
100 1 Harjo, Joy,|eauthor.
245 10 How we became human :|bnew and selected poems /|cJoy
Harjo.
264 1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Co.,|c[2004]
300 xxviii, 242 pages ;|c24 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
505 00 |gfrom:|tThe last song|g(1975) (Puerto del Sol Press,
chapbook no. 1):|tWatching crow, looking south toward the
Manzano Mountains ;--|t"for a hopi silversmith" --|tSan
Juan Pueblo and South Dakota are 800 miles away on a map -
-|t"he told me his name was sitting bull" --|t3 a.m. --
|t"the last song" --|tAre you still there?--
|tConversations between here and home. --
505 80 |gfrom:|tWhat moon drove me to this?|g(1979) ( I. Reed
Books):|tFour horse songs --|tI am a dangerous woman --
|tThere was a dance, sweetheart --|tCrossing the border --
|tSomeone talking --|tFire. --
505 80 |gfrom:|tShe had some horses|g(1983) (Thunder's Mouth
Press):|tCall it fear --|tAnchorage --|tFor Alva Benson,
and for those who have learned to speak --|tThe woman
hanging from the thirteenth floor window --|tWhite bear --
|tSkeleton of winter --|tRemember --|tNew Orleans --|tShe
had some horses --|tI give you back. --
505 80 |gfrom:|tSecrets from the center of the world|g(1989)
(University of Arizona Press):|tMy house is the red earth
--|tIf you look with the mind of the swirling earth --|tIf
all events are related --|tThis land is a poem --
|tAnything that matters --|tInvisible fish --|tDon't
bother the earth spirit --|tIt is an honor. --
505 80 |gfrom:|tIn mad love and war|g(1990) (Wesleyan University
Press):|tGrace --|tDeer dancer --|tFor Anna Mae Pictou
Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled
stars --|tTrickster --|tBird --|tThe real revolution is
love --|tSong for the deer and myself to return on --
|tRainy dawn --|tSanta Fe --|tDesire --|tThe book of myths
--|tTransformations --|tEagle poem. --
505 80 |gfrom:|tThe woman who fell from the sky|g(1994) (W.W.
Norton):|tReconciliation, a prayer --|tThe creation story
--|tThe woman who fell from the sky --|tThe flood --|tA
postcolonial tale --|tThe myth of blackbirds --|tThe song
of the house in the house --|tLetter from the end of the
twentieth century --|tPromise of blue horses --|tThe place
the musician became a bear --|tFishing --|tPromise --|tThe
dawn appears with butterflies --|tPerhaps the world ends
here. --
505 80 |gfrom:|tA map to the next world : poems and tales|g(2000)
(W.W. Norton):|tSongline of dawn --|tA map to the next
world --|tThe end --|tEmergence --|tSongs from the house
of death, or,|tHow to make it through to the end of a
relationship --|tThe path to the Milky Way leads through
Los Angeles --|tThe power of never --|tHold up --
|tReturning from the enemy --|tThe ceremony --|tThis is my
heart --|tProtocol --|tMorning song. --
505 80 |gNew poems, 1999-2001:|tIn praise of earth --|tLetter
(with songline) to the Breathmaker --|tI am not ready to
die yet --|tNaming --|tFaith --|tEquinox --|tAh, ah --
|tMorning prayers --|tThe everlasting --|tAnd if I awaken
in Los Angeles --|tIt's raining in Honolulu --|tRushing
the Pali --|tWhen the world as we knew it ended.
520 "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."--Publisher
description.
650 0 Navajo Indians|vPoetry.
650 0 Indian women|vPoetry.
650 0 Nature|vPoetry.
650 0 Poetry of places.
650 7 Indian women.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00969245
650 7 Poetry of places.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01067759
650 7 Nature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01034561
650 7 Navajo Indians.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01034799
650 9 Indians of North America.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00969633
650 9 Indians of North America|vPoetry.
655 7 Poetry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423828
655 7 Poetry.|2lcgft
690 7 Indigenous peoples|zNorth America|vPoetry.|2local DEI term
994 C0|bCKE