The woman who fell from the sky : poems / Joy Harjo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harjo, Joy, author.

Contributor:

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Indian women--Poetry.

Indian women.

Genre:

Poetry

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Harjo, Joy (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[18], 69, [1] pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [1994]

Summary:

A collection of twenty-four poems, centering on women, American culture, and Native American traditions.

Contents:

I. Tribal Memory

The Creation Story: "There are many versions of the creation story . . ."

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: "I traveled far above the earth . . ."

The Naming: "I never liked my mother's mother . . ."

The Flood: "Embedded in Muscogee tribal memory . . ."

A Postcolonial Tale: "The landscape of the late twentieth century . . ."

Mourning Song: "In the city in which I live . . ."

Northern Lights: "I was invited up north once . . ."

Who Invented Death and Crows and is There Anything We Can Do to Calm the Noisy Clatter of Destruction? "When I hear crows talking . . ."

The Myth of Blackbirds: "I believe love is the strongest force in the world . . ."

The Song of the House in the House: "I believe an architectural structure is interactive . . ."

Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace: "I think of Bell's theorem . . ."

Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century: "I was in a downtown Chicago hotel room . . ."

II. The World Ends Here

Witness: "The Indian wars never ended . . ."

Wolf Warrior: "One morning I prepared to see a friend off . . ."

Promise of Blue Horses: "The heart is constructed of a promise ..."

Sonata for the Invisible: "My son called me once at three in the morning . . ."

The Place the Musician Became a Bear: "I heard about Jim Pepper . . ."

The Other Side of Yellow to Blue: "For weeks the tune 'Contemplation' . . ."

The Field of Miracles: "It's possible to understand the world . . ."

Petroglyph: "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's paintings . . ."

Fishing: "A few weeks before he died . . ."

Promise: "The spring before my granddaughter Krista's birth . . ."

The Dawn Appears with Butterflies: "I was on my way to Tuba City . . ."

Perhaps the World Ends Here.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0393037150

9780393037159

OCLC:

1467727530