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An American Sunrise
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This collection will resonate strongly with readers interested in indigenous history, poetry lovers seeking profound and evocative verse, and those drawn to themes of cultural survival, spirituality, and social justice.
An American Sunrise
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.
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In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history.
In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.
Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and "one of our finest-and most complicated-poets" (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
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Critics praise the collection as a profoundly moving and richly engaging work. The New York Times highlights its celebration, crisis, brokenness, and healing, while the Washington Post calls it a deeply moving journey that creates bridges of understanding and urges remembrance of the past. Vogue notes Harjo’s resilience in confronting dark history, and the BBC describes the poems as a radiant and brilliantly conceived song cycle celebrating endurance and renewal.
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ISBN: 9781324003861
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 August 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 147.0mm
Height: 218.0mm
Weight: 305g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal. Harjo has released seven award-winning albums and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
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