Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by Joy Harjo, Carla D. Hayden, The Library of Congress

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Joy Harjo, Carla D. Hayden, The Library of Congress
Page: 240
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ISBN: 9780393867923
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Notes From Your Bookseller It feels like, to us, that the world is opening its mind up to diverse voices. As you know, we all “already knew.” And now we can rejoice in the catching up. Joy Harjo puts her life’s Poet Laureate project of creating a digital database of Native poets into our hands. Add this title to your library along with Kevin Young's African American Poetry and YOUR world view will open tenfold. We’re living in such new days. Enjoy the expanse. A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.

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