When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:First Edition.
Imprint:New York, N. Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Description:xxiii, 458 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12449361
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Varying Form of Title:Norton anthology of Native nations poetry
Native nations poetry
Other authors / contributors:Harjo, Joy, editor.
Howe, LeAnne, editor.
Foerster, Jennifer Elise, editor.
ISBN:9780393356809
0393356809
9780393356816
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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 DineĢ 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"--
Other form:Online version: When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through. First edition. New York, N. Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020] 9780393356816