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Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems

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    Blackstone Publishing, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Harjo, Joy
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    Summary:

    From poet laureate of the United States comes this collection of poems in which the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.

    Contents:
    • Acknowledgments.
    • Part one. How it came to be: "I lay my body down ..."
    • For calling the spirit back from wandering the earth in its human feet
    • "For any spark to make a song ..."
    • Rabbit is up to tricks
    • "Listened to an alto sax player ..."
    • No
    • "Humans were created by mistake ..."
    • Once the world was perfect
    • "When I woke up from a forty-year sleep ..."
    • Cricket song
    • "After years you realize ..."
    • Entering the principality of O'ahu by sky roads
    • "Each human is a complex, contradictory story ..."
    • We were there when jazz was invented
    • "This is only one of many worlds ..."
    • Reality show
    • "When I blow my horn ..."
    • Beautiful baby, beautiful child.
    • Part two. The wanderer: Talking with the sun
    • "'One way to look at it, ' he told me ..."
    • Spirit walking in the tundra
    • "Where we lived, the settlers built their houses ..."
    • Mother field
    • "Let's not shame our eyes ..."
    • Walk
    • "Midnight is a horn player ..."
    • Charlie and the baby
    • "When I walk over to join you in the two-step ..."
    • Had-It-Up-to-Here Round Dance
    • " 'Through these doors walk some of the finest ... ' "
    • One Day There Will Be Horses
    • "When I returned to my ancestral grounds ..."
    • Goin' home
    • "Our Mvskoke new year is inherently ..."
    • The first day without a mother.
    • Part three. Visions and monsters: Falling, falling
    • "Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries ..."
    • In mystic
    • "This is the kitchen table university ..."
    • Listening to blues in a fish joint, downtown Denver
    • "I would do anything for you, baby ..."
    • Indian school night song blues
    • "Do not feed the monsters ..."
    • Suicide watch
    • "We all have helpers ..."
    • This morning I pray for my enemies
    • "Ah, but what about being ..."
    • Conflict resolution for holy beings
    • "The first horn I played ..."
    • Forever
    • "And then I argued with myself ..."
    • I am not ready to die yet
    • "Whenever a saxophone begins ..."
    • Report from the edge of a terrible regime
    • "In one house lives the sun ..."
    • From DFW Airport at dawn
    • "What kept me going was that perfect song ..."
    • The last world of fire and trash.
    • Part four. The world: You can change the story, my spirit said to me as I sat near the sea
    • "Those who could see into the future predicted the storm ..."
    • Sunrise healing song
    • "I knew there was no way ..."
    • It's raining in Honolulu
    • "The day went on as it always had ..."
    • Praise the rain
    • "Time is a being, like you, like me ..."
    • Rushing the Pali
    • "I thought of all the doors ..."
    • Surfing canoes
    • "I returned to the city of country swing ..."
    • Speaking tree
    • "I heard a raven cry the blues ..."
    • Everybody has heartache
    • "Everyone comes into the world ..."
    • For a girl becoming
    • "I keep thinking of my boyfriend ..."
    • Fall song
    • "My friend Sarita went visiting ..."
    • For keeps
    • "I confided in him the longing ..."
    • Equinox
    • "What are you doing there, soul ..."
    • Sunrise.
    Genre:
    Poetry
    Subject(s): American Poetry | Indigenous authors | Indigenous peoples--North America | Muskogee | POETRY / American / General | POETRY / Native American | POETRY / Women Authors | Poetry
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781094081137, 1094081132, 9781094081144, 1094081140
    Collection(s)/Series: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Collection