When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native Nations poetry
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393356809
- ISBN: 0393356809
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Physical Description:
xxiii, 458 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N. Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Southeast. Renewal / by Jennifer elise Foerster -- Evening song 93 / Choctaw -- Song of the Choctaw girl / Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Choctaw -- Sequoyah, Joshua Ross, Cherokee -- Literary day among the birds / Lily Lee, Cherokee -- To Miss Vic / John Gunter Lipe, Cherokee -- The white man wants the Indian's home / James Harris Guy, Chickasaw -- The red man's burden / J.C. Duncan, Cherokee -- October / Evalyn Callahan Shaw, Mvskoke -- To a hummingbird ; Tulledega ; To allot, or not to allot / Alexander Pose, Mvskoke -- To class '95 / Samuel Sixkiller, Cherokee -- Inauguration day / Stella LeFlore Carter, Chickasaw -- Sippokni Sia / Winnie Lewis Gravitt, Choctaw -- Sentenced / Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson, Cherokee -- A letter / Lynn Riggs, Cherokee -- Mind over matter ; The sharp-breasted snake ; Medicare / Louis Little Coon Oliver, Mvskoke -- Fallen leaves ; The poet / Mary Cornelia Hartshorne, Choctaw -- To frighten a storm : Combing / Gladys Cardiff, Eastern Band Cherokee -- Landing ; Blessings ; The history of fire / Linda Hogan, Chickasaw -- Anumpa Bok Lukfi Hilha (Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek) / Phillip Carroll Morgan, Choctaw, Chickasaw -- Simplicity / Moses Jumper Jr., Seminole -- Noble savage sees a therapist ; Ishki, mother, upon leaving the Choctaw homelands, 1831 ; The list we make / LeAnne Howe, Choctaw -- Running, She had some horses ; Rabbit is up to tricks / Joy Harjo, Mvskoke -- Water as a sense of place / Kim Shuck, Cherokee -- A proposal / Chip Livingston, Mvskoke -- Trespassing / Marianne Aweagon Broyles, Cherokee -- A Creek woman beside Lake Ontario / Stacy Pratt, Mvskoke -- Sun perch ; The carnival / Santee Frazier, Cherokee -- Relic ; Leaving Tulsa / Jennifer Elise Foerster, Mvskoke -- Nanih Waiya Cave / Lara Mann, Choctaw -- Outroduction / by LeAnne Howe. |
Summary, etc.: | "United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. 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"-- |
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Subject: | American poetry Indian authors Indians of North America Poetry |
Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
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