When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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"United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. 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 blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Dine poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete"--

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
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Source title: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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, PS591.I55W47 2020, PS591.I55 W47 2020

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paperback
Number of pages
496

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Open Library
OL28223137M
ISBN 10
0393356809
ISBN 13
9780393356809
LCCN
2020019323
OCLC/WorldCat
1152453977

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OL20845773W

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