Living Nations, Living Words - An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet to serve as US Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native American peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.
This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering."

About the author

Joy Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is the author of several poetry collections, memoirs, children’s books, and music albums. She is the recipient of many awards for her creative work, including a National Humanities Medal. She lives in Oklahoma.

Summary

A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native American poets writing today.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joy Harjo (Editor), Harjo Joy (Editor), Carla D. Hayden (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2021
• EAN: 9780393867916
• ISBN: 978-0-393-86791-6
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 311 g
• Illustrations: 50 photographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Indigenous Peoples, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry anthologies (various poets), POETRY / American / Native American, Relating to Native American people