Paperback
Native voices rise: land, kinship, resistance echo in vital American poetry.

Living Nations, Living Words

An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

$23.93

  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    4 June 2021

Check Delivery Options

Summary

Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.

This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780393867916
ISBN-10:0393867919
Author:Joy Harjo, Carla D. Hayden, The Library of Congress
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:4 June 2021
Weight:311g
Dimensions:18mm x 132mm x 211mm
A-Format
B-Format
Living Nations, Living Words by Joy Harjo - ISBN: 9780393867916
132 × 211 mm
C-Format
A4
mm / in
About The Author

Joy Harjo

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.

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.