In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991)

Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe (â‚¬Å“a stolen people in a stolen landâ‚¬Â), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the land; they are one with the deer and the fox, the hawk and the eagle, the sun, moon, and wind, and the seasons â‚¬â€œ â‚¬Å“spring/ was lean and hungry with he hope of children and corn.â‚¬Â There are enemies here, also lovers; there are ghost dancers, ancestors old and new, who rise again â‚¬Å“to walk in shoes of fire.â‚¬Â

Indeed, fire and its aftermath is a constant image in the burning book. Skies are â‚¬Å“incendiaryâ‚¬Â; the â‚¬Å“smoke of dawnâ‚¬Â turns enemies into ashes: â‚¬Å“I am fire eaten by wind.â‚¬Â â‚¬Å“Your fire scorched/ my lips.â‚¬Â â‚¬Å“I am lighting the fire that crawls from my spine/ to the gods with a coal from my sisterâ‚¬s flame.â‚¬Â

But the spirit of this book is not consumed. It is not limited by mad love or war, and â‚¬Å“there is something larger than the memory/ of a dispossessed people.â‚¬Â That something larger is, for example, revolution, freedom, birth.
Country USA
Brand Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer Wesleyan University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 3 illustrations
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780819511829
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer	Wesleyan University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	3 illustrations
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780819511829
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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