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Harjo, Joy Daughter of Allen William and Wynema Jewell (Baker) Foster.
( "This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is a...)
"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."―Wilma Mankiller In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole.
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( Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of t...)
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. 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.
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(How We Became Human New and Selected Poems 1975 2002 by H...)
How We Became Human New and Selected Poems 1975 2002 by Harjo, Joy. Published by W. W. Norton,2004, Binding: Paperback
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( A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one o...)
A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.
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(This is not a book. It is an opening into woman light, in...)
This is not a book. It is an opening into woman light, into hatching, into awakening. The ruined & dismembered, imprisoned, dispossessed, ride out on a bright thundering of horses in a light of illumination and love. Who touches this book touches a woman. If you want to remember what you never listened to & what you didn't know you knew, or wanted to know, open this sound &n forget to fear. A woman is appearing in the horizon light.
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musician performer playwright poet
Harjo, Joy Daughter of Allen William and Wynema Jewell (Baker) Foster.
Bachelor, University New Mexico, 1976. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Benedictine College, 1992.
Phd (honorary), St. Mary-in-The Woods, 1998.
Assistant professor University Colorado, Boulder, 1986-1989. Associate professor University Arizona, Tucson, 1989-1991. Professor University New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991-1997.
President Mekko Productions, Inc., Honolulu, since 1992. Professor University of California at Los Angeles, 2000—2005. Russo endowed chair University New Mexico, New Mexico, 2005—2009.
Member advisory board Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, New York City, 1994-1996, National Council on the Arts. Founding board member Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
( "This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is a...)
( Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of t...)
( A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one o...)
(How We Became Human New and Selected Poems 1975 2002 by H...)
(This is not a book. It is an opening into woman light, in...)
Author: (book and audio cassette) The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, 1994, (poetry) A Map to the Next World, Poems and Tales, 2000, (children's book) The Goodluck Cat, 2000, (poetry) How We Became Human, 2002. Editor: (anthology) Reinventing the Enemy's Language, 1997. Co-editor, interviewee: The Spiral of Memory, 1996.
For a Girl Becoming (children's book) 2009. Musician, producer CDs Letter from the End of the 20th Century, 1997, Native Joy for Real Joy Harjo, 2004, She Had Some Horses, 2006, Winding Through the Milky Way 2009, Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears, 2010. Co-writer (film) A Thousand Roads, 2005.
One Woman Show: writer, performer and musician: Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light 2007-2010.
Member National Council on the Arts.
Children: Phil Dayn, Rainy Dawn.