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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975–2001 is a poetry collection by American author Joy Harjo, published in 2002. Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, draws on Indigenous history, oral tradition, and personal narrative in her work. The volume compiles poems from her earlier col...
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This retrospective confirms Harjo's major stature through consistently powerful work on ancestry, violence, survival, spirituality, and Indigenous identity.
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings is a 2015 poetry collection by Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the United States Poet Laureate. The collection combines themes of indigenous history, spirituality, and contemporary Native American life. Through her verse, Harjo addresses the...
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Joy Harjo's collection received major acclaim for spiritual authority, Indigenous perspective, musical language, and cohesive engagement with history and survival.
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*An American Sunrise* is a 2019 poetry collection by Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the United States Poet Laureate. Through a mix of poetry and prose, the collection reflects on the history of her Indigenous ancestors and their forced removal from their ancestral homelands i...
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Harjo's widely praised collection combines personal memory, Indigenous history, and national critique with accessibility, lyric force, and moral clarity.
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"She Had Some Horses" is a 1983 poetry collection by Joy Harjo, a writer and musician of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation who later served as the United States Poet Laureate. The book uses the titular animal as a recurring metaphor to explore themes of identity, struggle, and survival within Indigenous a...
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Harjo's breakthrough collection is canonical in Indigenous and feminist poetry, acclaimed for incantatory power, identity exploration, and enduring influence.
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"In Mad Love and War" is a poetry collection published in 1990 by Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The collection explores themes of colonial violence, systemic oppression, intimate relationships, and Indigenous resistance. Harjo integrates Native American oral traditions, storyte...
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Harjo's American Book Award winner is praised for emotional intensity, political conviction, and jazz-inflected lyricism, with occasional rhetorical unevenness.
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