An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harjo, Joy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harjo, Joy--Family--Poetry.

Harjo, Joy.

American poetry.

Creek Indians--History--Poetry.

Creek Indians.

History.

Families.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 116 pages : map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Summary:

"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice."--Jacket.

A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.

Contents:

Prologue

Map of the Trail of Tears

Break My Heart

My grandfather Monahwee

Exile of Memory

Granddaughters

The Fight

Directions to You

Seven Generations

In 1990 a congress

Weapons,

The Story Wheel

Once I looked at the moon

Washing My Mother's Body

There is a map

Rising and Falling

The Road to Disappearance

Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues

My great-grandfather Monahwee

How to Write a Poem in a Time of War

Mvskoke Mourning Song

First Morning

Singing Everything

Falling from the Night Sky

Our knowledge is based

For Earth's Grandsons

Running

A Refuge in the Smallest of Places

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

Bourbon and Blues

My Great-Aunt Ella Monahwee Jacobs's Testimony

Road

The Southeast was covered

Desire's Dog

Dawning

Honoring

My Man's Feet

"I Wonder What You Are Thinking,"

Fot Those Who Would Govern

Rabbit Invents the Saxophone

When Adolfe Sax patented

Let There Be No Regrets

Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing and Falling

Tobacco Origin Story

My aunt Lois Harjo told me

Redbird Love

We follow the DNA spiral of stories

Becoming Seventy

Beyond

Ren-Toh-Pvrv

Memory Sack

Every night

Cehotosakvtes

One March

By the Way

When we made it down last year

Welcoming Song

An American Sunrise

Bless This Land

Acknowledgements

ISBN:

9781324003861

1324003863

OCLC:

1084432549