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Catching the Light
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2023
108 kr
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National Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing “Her enduring message—that writing can be redemptive—resonates: ‘To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert “I am.”’ The result is a rousing …
Girl Warrior
On Coming of Age
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
234 kr
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“To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is there evil in the world? Why do people suffer, and some more than others? Why are we here? What are we doing …
Crazy Brave
A Memoir
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
181 kr
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In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual …
Poet Warrior
A Memoir
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
181 kr
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Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8), Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write …
She Had Some Horses
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2008
196 kr
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First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.
Spiral of Memory
Interviews
Häftad, 1995
373 kr
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With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. Over the past two decades, Harjo has refined and perfected a unique poetic voice that speaks her multifaceted experience as Native American, woman …
Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light
A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses
Häftad, 2019
256 kr
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Joy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater. Harjo blends storytelling, music, movement, and poetic language in Wings of Night Sky, Wings of …
For a Girl Becoming
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2009
287 kr
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Transformative moments in the cycle of life are a time for acknowledgment, a chance to guide a child’s path in a positive and loving direction.Swirling images laden with both myth and personal meaning illustrate this unique, poetic tale of the joys and lessons of a girl’s journey through birth, …
Gathering the Light
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2026
287 kr
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From the U.S. Poet Laureate and author of the award winning picture book, Remember , this luminous and lyrical story reminds readers to cherish their place in the world and make a positive impact wherever they go. We live in a circle; it begins at sunrise. Go out to greet the day, to respect, to …
Crazy Brave
A Memoir
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2012
486 kr
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In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding …
Poet Warrior
A Memoir
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2021
257 kr
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In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses and humble realisations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion …
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Av Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo
Häftad, 1998
460 kr
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This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from Native American women. Over …
How We Became Human
New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2004
209 kr
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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 …
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2017
196 kr
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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 …
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2020
225 kr
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United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into one momentous volume. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back …
American Sunrise
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2020
181 kr
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In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds …
Living Nations, Living Words
An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Av Joy Harjo
Häftad, 2021
171 kr
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Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet to serve as US Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native American peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound and space, celebrating their vital …
Spiral of Memory
Interviews
E-bok, 2021
566 kr
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With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky , Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. Over the past two decades, Harjo has refined and perfected a unique poetic voice that speaks her multifaceted experience as Native American, …
Remember
Inbunden, 2023
196 kr
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • AN AMERICAN INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HONOR BOOK • A BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK HONOR AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • The Horn Book • NPR • The Bulletin • Kirkus Reviews US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s iconic poem …
Land Carries Our Ancestors
Contemporary Art by Native Americans
Av Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, heather ahtone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
429 kr
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A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today’s most boldly innovative Native American artists. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, one of the leading …
Secrets from the Center of the World
Häftad, 1989
234 kr
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"My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's photographs lead you to that place," writes Joy Harjo. "The camera eye becomes a space you can move through into the powerful landscapes that he …
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Ljudbok, 2019
223 kr
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A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States 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 …
American Sunrise
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Ljudbok, 2019
240 kr
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A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part …
American Sunrise
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2019
290 kr
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In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds …
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2022
348 kr
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Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining …
For a Girl Becoming
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2025
173 kr
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A baby girl is welcomed to the breathing world by generations of her family and set on the magnificent journey of becoming. As she grows, she is reminded of her connections to the natural world; to her family, her ancestors, her neighbors; to the source of all magic and sorrow—and of her …
Cloud Runner
Poems
Av Joy Harjo
Inbunden, 2026
297 kr
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Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: “Reason has no home in this hour,” she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound …
