American Sunrise: Poems

In the early 1800s, the Muskogee 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 her poem "An American Sunrise." She finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people and other indigenous families essentially disappeared. Her personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings, and 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.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 144 pages
\n Publication date: 18 September 2020
\n Publisher: WW Norton & Co
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In the early 1800s, the Muskogee people were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and initiates a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo discovers blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, along with other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her recollection of her mother's death to her beginnings in the Native rights movement and her fresh journey 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 resonates 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.

\n Weight: 122g\n
Dimension: 139 x 207 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780393358483\n \n