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Books by Joy Harjo
  | | An American Sunrise Poems (Paperback) by Joy Harjo Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35848-3, ISBN: 0-393-35848-8 |
 | | Crazy Brave(1st Edition) A Memoir by Joy Harjo Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34543-8, ISBN: 0-393-34543-2 "“Compressed . . . lyrical . . . unflinching . . . raw. . . . Harjo is a magician and a master of the English language.”―Jonah Raskin, San Francisco Chronicle In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepf ..." |
 | | She Had Some Horses(1st Edition) Poems by Joy Harjo Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33421-0, ISBN: 0-393-33421-X "A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets.First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, a ..." |
 | | How We Became Human(Updated) New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32534-8, ISBN: 0-393-32534-2 "I felt abandoned by the giver of life. Everything froze: the sky, exhaust from vehicles, my ability to write or dream and I didn't always handle it well. I took myself and my complaints too seriously and let the dark take me down. In those bleak moments Darlene Wind always reminded me to laugh, and we had plenty to laugh about given history and how we ended up in Iowa City at Iva's doorstep, trying to make it in this world. Iva Roy ..." |
 | | A Map to the Next World(Reprint) Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32096-1, ISBN: 0-393-32096-0 ""This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."—Wilma MankillerIn her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole." |
 | | In Mad Love and War(1st Edition) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Joy Harjo Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 1990 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-1182-9, ISBN: 0-8195-1182-X "Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991) 2019 United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the la ..." |
 | | When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through(1st Edition) A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by Leanne Howe, Joy Harjo, Jennifer Elise Foerster Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2020 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35680-9, ISBN: 0-393-35680-9 "The first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology, without which no study of American poetry is complete.United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into one momentous volume. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries.Opening with a b ..." |
 | | Reinventing the Enemy's Language(1st Edition) Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America by Joy Harjo, Gloria Bird, Al Et, Valerie Martinez, Beth Cuthand, Patricia Blanco Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 1998 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31828-9, ISBN: 0-393-31828-1 ""A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal."—San Francisco ChronicleThis long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, a ..." |
 | | She Had Some Horses(1st Edition) by Joy Harjo Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1997 by Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-119-4, ISBN: 1-56025-119-0 "Joy Harjo's haunting poetry explores the pain, depth, and hope that women shareIn this powerful collection of poems, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate moments. Her prose speaks of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love. The recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the American Book ..." |
 | | Poet Warrior A Memoir (Hardback) by Joy Harjo Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24852-4, ISBN: 0-393-24852-6 "Praise for Joy Harjo and Crazy Brave Joy Harjo has always been able to see with more than her eyes. Her writing is a testament to this gift...Her hero's journey is a gift for all those struggling to make their way." |
 | | An American Sunrise(1st Edition) Poems by Joy Harjo Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00386-1, ISBN: 1-324-00386-3 "National Bestseller 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.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. In An Amer ..." |
 | | Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings(1st Edition) Poems by Joy Harjo Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35363-1, ISBN: 0-393-35363-X "Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize A musical, magical, resilient volume from one of our most celebrated and essential Native American voices.In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the ..." |
 | | Crazy Brave(1st Edition) A Memoir by Joy Harjo Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07346-1, ISBN: 0-393-07346-7 "A spiritual coming-of-age memoir from a poet praised for her "breathtaking complex witness and world-remaking language" (Adrienne Rich). In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shel ..." |
 | | She Had Some Horses(6th Edition) by Joy Harjo Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2005 by Seal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-830-8, ISBN: 1-56025-830-6 "In this powerful collection of poetry, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate moments. Professor, poetry award winner, performer, and former member of the National Council on the Arts, Harjo’s prose speaks of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love." |
 | | September 11, 2001 American Writers Respond by William Heyen, David Zane Mairowitz, Joy Harjo, Joanna Scott, John Updike, Denis Johnson Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2002 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9718228-0-1, ISBN: 0-9718228-0-8 "This book, which is unlike any other in our literature, was written during the three months following September 11, 2001. The editor wanted to catch the first, passionate reactions of many of our finest creative writers to a matrix of grievous events that would continue to intensify in the American memory as have few others. In September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, more than 125 fiction writers, poets, and essayists are seized i ..." |
 | | American Indians and the Urban Experience(320th Edition) (Contemporary Native American Communities) by Susan Lobo, Kurt Peters, Dugan Aguilar, Joy Harjo, Carol Miller, Jack D. Forbes, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Joan Weibel-Orlando, Deborah Davis Jackson, Donald L. Fixico, Esther Belin, Victoria Bomberry, Pena Bonita, Parris Butler, John Collier Jr, Jimmy Curtiss, Taweah Garcia, Angela A. Gonzales, Paivi Hoikkala, Edgar Jackson/Anawrok, Zig Jackson, Alex Julca, Chris Lamarr, Without Rezervation, Julian Lang, Christine T. Lowery, L. Frank Manriquez, Renya Ramirez, Carter Revard/Nompewathe, Larry Rodriguez Sr, Mike Rodriguez, Terry Straus, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Debra Valentino, Michael J. Thompson, Mahni Dugan, Donald Lee Fixico, Peters/Fixico/Thomps, Dr Susan Lobo, Lobo/Peters Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-0275-8, ISBN: 0-7425-0275-9 "Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewe ..." |
 | | A Map to the Next World(1st Edition) Poems by Joy Harjo Hardcover, 138 Pages, Published 2000 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04790-5, ISBN: 0-393-04790-3 "The poet author of The Woman Who Fell from the Sky draws on her own Native American heritage in a collection of lyrical poetry that explores the cruelties and tragedies of history and the redeeming miracles of human kindness." |
 | | The Woman Who Fell from The Sky(Updated) Poems by Joy Harjo Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1996 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31362-8, ISBN: 0-393-31362-X "Along with N. Scott Momaday, John Trudell, and very few others, Joy Harjo is an essential Native American literary voice. She counts among her devoted readers Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and Sandra Cisneros; her writing is infused with a generosity of spirit that accounts for much of her appeal. Dancing children, the attempt to heal a broken life, rising moons, and blue horses turning into streaks of lightning are the images H ..." |
 | | She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1988 by Thunder's Mouth Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-938410-06-5, ISBN: 0-938410-06-7 "Joy Harjo's haunting poetry explores the pain, depth, and hope that women shareIn this powerful collection of poems, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate moments. Her prose speaks of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love. The recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the American Book ..." |
 | | Reinventing the Enemy's Language Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America by Joy Harjo, Gloria Bird, Patricia Blanco, Beth Cuthand, Valerie Martinez Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 1997 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04029-6, ISBN: 0-393-04029-1 "From people who value stories and songs from literary traditions that are as encompassing and intricate as those of Europe, Reinventing the Enemy's Language is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect the poetry, fiction, prayer and memoir from Native American women. It is about the process of writing and speaking that sheds light on what it means to be an Indian woman at the end of the century, as many nations - includin ..." |
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