Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years

Harjo, Joy (author., Author). Cisneros, Sandra, (writer of foreword., Author of introduction, etc.).

Summary: "In this selection of poems Harjo, a three-term US Poet Laureate, celebrates her fifty years as a poet. While musical, intimate, political and wise, they intertwine ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. From her early discoveries for her own voice to moving reflections of our contemporary movement, she offers poems on birth, death, love, and resistance-- and everything they encompass."--Adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 1324036486
ISBN: 9781324036487
Physical Description: xviii, 127 pages ; 22 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The last song -- Are you still there? -- Anchorage -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak -- The woman hanging from the thirteenth-floor window -- Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back -- My house is the red earth -- Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Bird -- Rainy Dawn -- Santa Fe -- Eagle poem -- The creation story -- A postcolonial tale -- The dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here -- A map to the next world -- Emergence -- The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles -- Equinox -- It's raining in Honolulu -- When the world as we knew it ended -- For calling the spirit back from wandering the Earth in its human feet -- Rabbit is up to tricks -- No -- This morning I pray for my enemies -- Praise the rain -- Speaking tree -- Fall song -- Sunrise -- Break my heart -- Washing my mother's body -- How to write a poem in a time of war -- Running -- My man's feet -- Tobacco origin story -- Redbird love -- An American sunrise -- Frog in a dry river -- Prepare -- The life of beauty -- How love blows through the trees -- Sundown walks to the edge of the story -- Somewhere -- Without.