num_pages: 272
description: Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace.
language: English
title: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001
titlecomplete: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001
genres: American, Cultural, United States, School, Poetry, Feminism, Nonfiction, History, Spirituality, Research
ratings_count: 1128
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company