An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.
Harjo, Joy, author.
2019
PS3558.A62423 A64 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.
Author
Harjo, Joy, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781324003861 (hardcover)
1324003863 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 116 pages : map ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3558.A62423 A64 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.54
Summary
"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 ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice." -- Jacket.
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.
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Prologue
Map of the Trail of Tears
Break My Heart
My grandfather Monahwee
Exile of Memory
Granddaughters
The Fight
Directions to You
Seven Generations
In 1990 a congress
Weapons,
The Story Wheel
Once I looked at the moon
Washing My Mother's Body
There is a map
Rising and Falling
The Road to Disappearance
Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues
My great-grandfather Monahwee
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
Mvskoke Mourning Song
First Morning
Singing Everything
Falling from the Night Sky
Our knowledge is based
For Earth's Grandsons
Running
A Refuge in the Smallest of Places
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Bourbon and Blues
My Great-Aunt Ella Monahwee Jacobs's Testimony
Road
The Southeast was covered
Desire's Dog
Dawning
Honoring
My Man's Feet
"I Wonder What You Are Thinking,"
For Those Who Would Govern
Rabbit Invents the Saxophone
When Adolfe Sax patented
Let There Be No Regrets
Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing and Falling
Tobacco Origin Story
My aunt Lois Harjo told me
Redbird Love
We follow the DNA spiral of stories
Becoming Seventy
Beyond
Ren-Toh-Pvrv
Memory Sack
Every night
Cehotosakvtes
One March
By the Way
When we made it down last year
Welcoming Song
An American Sunrise
Bless This Land
Acknowledgements.

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