When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Subtitle: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Aug 25, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780393356809
Description: "United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Dine  poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete"--
Notes: Source title: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry