Living nations, living words : an anthology of first peoples poetry /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393867916
- 0393867919
- 811.008/0897 23
- PS591.I55 L56 2021
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Nonfiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | 811.008 HARJO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022935535 | |||
Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Nonfiction | Hayden Library | Book | 811/HARJO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/20/2024 | 50610022974195 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes index.
"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 to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.""--
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. xiii)
- Becoming/East
- Daybreak (p. 3)
- B 'o E-a:g mas 'ab Him g Ju:ki/It is Going to Rain (p. 6)
- Maoli (p. 9)
- Heritage, X (p. 11)
- Off-Island CHamorus (p. 14)
- Welcoming Home Living Beings (p. 17)
- Wichihaka/The One I Live With (p. 21)
- Indigenous Physics: The Element Colonizatium (p. 24)
- Coquille (p. 31)
- Baby Out of Cut-Open Woman (p. 34)
- Notes from Coosa (p. 37)
- 1918 Union Valley Road Oklahoma (p. 39)
- The Rhetorical Feminine (p. 47)
- Current, I (p. 50)
- These Rivers Remember (p. 62)
- Anchorage, 1989 (p. 65)
- Exile of Memory (p. 71)
- Center/North-South
- River People-The Lost Watch (p. 81)
- Old Humptulips (p. 88)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Indian (p. 90)
- I gotta be Indian tomorrow (p. 95)
- This Island on which I Love You (p. 98)
- Tiimiaq, something carried, (p. 102)
- Palominos Near Tuba City (p. 106)
- Advice to Myself (p. 108)
- Peacemaking (p. 111)
- Thought (p. 115)
- Hell's Acre (p. 117)
- Rookeries (p. 124)
- The Book of the Missing, Murdered and Indigenous-Chapter 1 (p. 127)
- Like any good indian woman (p. 130)
- Poem on Disappearance (p. 133)
- Na Wai Ea, The Freed Waters (p. 136)
- Departure/West
- This River (p. 157)
- Trudell (p. 159)
- Transplant: After Georgia O'Keeffe's Pelvis IV, 1944 (p. 162)
- Resilience (p. 165)
- In the Field (p. 168)
- Shapeshifters Banned, Censored, or Otherwise Shit-Listed, aka Chosen Family Poem (p. 175)
- Antiquing with Indians (p. 178)
- Angry Red Planet (p. 181)
- From Dissolve (p. 186)
- What did you learn here? (Old Man House, Suquamish) (p. 190)
- Within Dinétah the People's Spirit Remains Strong (p. 193)
- Resolution 2 (p. 200)
- Ilííngo Naalyéhé: Goods of Value (p. 203)
- Postcolonial Love Poem (p. 208)
- Acknowledgments (p. 211)
- Credits (p. 213)
- Index (p. 219)
Patron comment on 12/03/2021
Joy Harjo's signature piece as the 23rd US Poet Laureate brings together the works of a diverse group of poets, all Indigenous Americans, but with unique voices and each their own story to tell. While the books stands fine on its own, I feel it is best appreciated as a companion to her online project of the same name. As a relative newcomer to poetry I often find it difficult to parse out the cadence an author is aiming for, especially if the layout of the poem is other than standard. Additionally, many of the poems contain words in a given poet's native language, which can be a struggle if you aren't familiar with the pronunciation. Listening to the author read their work while following along in the book removed those stumbling blocks and made for a beautifully immersive experience.