Joy Harjo

How We Became Human

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Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.
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162 printed pages
Original publication
2004
Publication year
2004
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  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted2 years ago
    There is no poetry where there are no mistakes, said the next messenger. I
    am a human being, I said.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted2 years ago
    I’d rather understand how to sing from a crow
    who was never good at singing or much of anything
    but finding gold in the trash of humans.

    So what are we doing here I ask the crow parading on the ledge of
    falling that hangs over this precarious city?

    Crow just laughs and says wait, wait and see and I am waiting
    and not seeing anything, not just yet.

    But like crow I collect the shine of anything beautiful I can find.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted2 years ago
    There are strangers above me, below me, and all around me and
    we are all strange in this place of recent invention.

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