Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo

By Joy Harjo

A musical, magical, resilient quantity from certainly one of our so much celebrated and crucial local American voices.

In those poems, the thrill and struggles of the typical are performed opposed to the grinding politics of being human. starting in a inn room at midnight of urban, we go back and forth via heritage and stick with the reminiscence of the path of Tears from the bend within the Tallapoosa River to a spot close to the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo all through. misplaced ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, whilst they grieve the lack of their nation. known as a "magician and a grasp" (San Francisco Chronicle), pleasure Harjo is on the most sensible of her shape in Conflict answer for Holy Beings.

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