In this powerful and stirring collection, Joy Harjo reflects on moving to her tribe’s original lands for the first time, on the blessings and difficulties of remembering and re-experiencing her tribe’s forced removal, and on being innately and irrevocably connected to her ancestors. From the memory of her mother’s death to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, Harjo’s intimate life intertwines with tribal history in poems that sing of beauty and survival.
From “An American Sunrise”
We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves, We
Were surfacing the edge of our ancestors’ fights, and ready to Strike
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Forty years later and we still want justice. We are still America. We.
This book title, An American Sunrise (Poems), ISBN: 9781324003861, by Joy Harjo, published by W. W. Norton & Company (September 10, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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