When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Contributor(s): Harjo, Joy (Editor), Howe, Leanne (With), Foerster, Jennifer Elise (With) |
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ISBN: 0393356809 ISBN-13: 9780393356809 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Poetry | Native American - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 811.008 |
LCCN: 2020019323 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.32 lbs) 496 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
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Publisher Description: This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Diné poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harjo, Joy: - Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was named United States Poet Laureate in 2019. The author of eight books of poetry and a memoir, Crazy Brave, her many honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow. |
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