Weaving sundown in a scarlet light fifty poems for fifty years
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
