A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
by Joy Harjo
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"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."รข??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. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device./Tags
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For some of the darlings of the literary world wot have thousands of reviews here on LibraryThing while such a beautifully lyric author like [[Joy Harjo]] top have none is nothing short of tragedy. This slim volume is packed with keen insights told in rhythmic, evocative language. Some are prose poems, almost narrative in feel, and others are more traditional poetic structure. But everything is honed to a sharp edge. Life-affirming and quickening, all she has to say resonates like a tuning fork imbedded firmly in the soul. There's a reason she was the United States Poet Laureate for multiple terms; if only more of the reading world was paying attention to her. I started my year with her memoir [Crazy Brave] and ended my year with her show more here - I'm so glad.
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Joy Harjo is an internationally known performer and writer of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, the author of ten books of poetry and a memoir, Crazy Brave. A critically acclaimed poet, her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the show more Arts Award. She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2000
- Epigraph
- vkvsamet hesaketvmese pomvte
mowe towekvs pokvhoyen yiceyvte
mon vkerrickv heren
pohvkerricen vpeyeyvres
With praise for the Breathmaker through whose intent we arrive here, and by whose grace we leave
... (show all)for Lurline Wailana McGregor, pau'ole
for Gregory M. Sarris, who stood by me through the difficult birth - First words
- ["Songline of Dawn"]
We are ascending through the dawn
the sky blushed with the fever
of attraction. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)["In the Beautiful Perfume and Stink of the World"]
In the dark. In the beautiful perfume and stink of the world.
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