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Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years  Cover Image Book Book

Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years / Joy Harjo ; [with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros].

Harjo, Joy, (author.). Cisneros, Sandra, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781324036487
  • ISBN: 1324036486
  • Physical Description: xviii, 127 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:
The last song -- Are you still there? -- Anchorage -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak -- The woman hanging from the thirteenth-floor window -- Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back -- My house is the red earth -- Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Bird -- Rainy Dawn -- Santa Fe -- Eagle poem -- The creation story -- A postcolonial tale -- The dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here -- A map to the next world -- Emergence -- The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles -- Equinox -- It's raining in Honolulu -- When the world as we knew it ended -- For calling the spirit back from wandering the Earth in its human feet -- Rabbit is up to tricks -- No -- This morning I pray for my enemies -- Praise the rain -- Speaking tree -- Fall song -- Sunrise -- Break my heart -- Washing my mother's body -- How to write a poem in a time of war -- Running -- My man's feet -- Tobacco origin story -- Redbird love -- An American sunrise -- Frog in a dry river -- Prepare -- The life of beauty -- How love blows through the trees -- Sundown walks to the edge of the story -- Somewhere -- Without.
Subject: Harjo, Joy > Family > Poetry.
Creek Indians > History > Poetry.
American poetry > 21st century.
Indians of North America > Poetry.
Genre: Poetry.
Poetry.

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