How we became human : new and selected poems : 1975-2001

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393325348 (softcover)
Physical Description: xxviii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
Copyright: ©2002

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Includes index.

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Introduction -- From The last song, 1975, Puerto del Sol Press, chapbook no. 1 -- From What moon drove me to this?, 1979, I. Reed Books -- From She had some horses, 1983, Thunder's Mouth Press -- From Secrets from the center of the world, 1989, University of Arizona Press -- From I mad love and war, 1990, Wesleyan University Press -- From The woman who fell from the sky, 1994, W.W. Norton -- From A map to the next world: poems and tales, 2000, W.W. Norton -- New poems, 1999-2001.