Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years / Joy Harjo ; [with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros].
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]
- Copyright: ©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. |
Find similar items by subject
Subject: | Harjo, Joy > Family > Poetry. Creek Indians > History > Poetry. American poetry > 21st century. Indians of North America > Poetry. |
Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
Currently available copies
- 9 / 11 copies available at PINES
Holds
- 0 current holds on 11 total copies.
More Options
Library System: Library Branch Name |
Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Athens Regional Library System: Bogart Library |
NONFIC 811.54 HARJO Send SMS Text |
31001005257226 | NONFICTION | Available | |
Catoosa County Library System: Catoosa County Library |
811.54 HARJO, JOY Send SMS Text |
31687002739989 | NEW-BKS | Available | |
Flint River Regional Library System: Fayette County Public Library |
811.54 HARJO Send SMS Text |
31022010295209 | ADULT | Available | |
Flint River Regional Library System: Peachtree City Library |
811.54 HARJO Send SMS Text |
31022009674901 | ADULT | Checked out | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Bull St. Library |
811.54 HARJ Send SMS Text |
31008000425608 | BULL SECOND FLOOR | Available | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Oglethorpe Mall Library - Savannah |
811.54 HARJ Send SMS Text |
31008000425607 | OM SECOND FLOOR | Available | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Pooler Library |
811.54 HARJ Send SMS Text |
31008000425610 | NONFIC | Available | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Southwest Chatham Library |
811.54 HARJ Send SMS Text |
31008000425609 | NEW | Available | |
Sara Hightower Regional Library: Rome-Floyd County Library |
811.54 HARJO Send SMS Text |
31047003775131 | NEW-BKS | Checked out | |
Southwest Georgia Regional Library System: Decatur County Public Library |
811.54 HAR 2022 Send SMS Text |
31052007786688 | STACKS | Available | |
Next 10 » | |||||