She Had Some Horses
Title | She Had Some Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 95 |
Release | 2008-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 039333421X |
A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Title | Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 2015-09-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393248518 |
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 and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
Title | How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2004-01-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393345807 |
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. 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 sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.
An American Sunrise: Poems
Title | An American Sunrise: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019-08-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1324003871 |
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 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 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. A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest—and most complicated—poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
Blue Horses
Title | Blue Horses PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Oliver |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0698170040 |
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments. At its heart, Blue Horses asks what it means to truly belong to this world, to live in it attuned to all its changes. Humorous, gentle, and always honest, Oliver is a visionary of the natural world.
Horse Girl
Title | Horse Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Carrie Seim |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2022-03-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0593095499 |
Mean Girls meets Black Beauty in Horse Girl by celebrated author Carrie Seim--a funny and tender middle-grade novel about finding your forever herd. "This book is funny and exciting. Beautifully portrays both the pleasures and risks of riding horses and also of being a teen. Very original, and a great pleasure to read."--Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wills is a seventh grader who's head-over-hoof for horses, and beyond excited when she gets the chance to start training at the prestigious Oakwood Riding Academy. But Amara--the Queen of the #HorseGirls--and her posse aren't going to let the certifiably dork-tagious Wills trot her way into their club so easily. Between learning the reins of horse riding, dealing with her Air Force pilot mom being stationed thousands of miles from home, and keeping it together in front of (gasp!) Horse Boys, Wills learns that becoming a part of the #HorseGirl world isn't easy. But with her rescue horse, Clyde, at her side, it sure will be fun. Complete with comedic, original hoof notes to acquaint the less equestrian among us, Horse Girl delivers everything a young readers wants: mean girls, boy problems, and embarrassingly goofy dad jokes. And it does so on the back of a pony.
Crazy Brave
Title | Crazy Brave PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2012-07-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393073467 |
A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.