She Had Some Horses [Paperback]

Joy Harjo (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1560258306 | ISBN-13: 978-1560258308 | Publication Date: November 30, 2005

In this powerful collection of poetry, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate moments. Professor, poetry award winner, performer, and former member of the National Council on the Arts, Harjo’s prose speaks of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.

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Alive
Anchorage
Backwards
The Black Room
Call It Fear
Connection
Cuchillo
Drowning Horses
Either A Snail's Moist Web
Explosion
For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned To Speak
The Friday Before The Long Weekend
Heartbeat
I Give You Back
Ice Horses
Jemez
Kansas City
Late Summer Leaving
Leaving
Moonlight
Motion
Nandia
Nautilaus
New Orleans
Night Out
One Cedar Tree
The Poem I Just Wrote
Rain
Remember
The Returning
September Moon
She Had Some Horses
She Remembers The Future
Skeleton Of Winter
Song For Thantog
Two Horses
Vision
What I Should Have Said
What Music
White Bear
The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
Your Phone Call At 8 Am
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press (November 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560258306
• ISBN-13: 978-1560258308
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks to PBS for introducing Joy Harjo, October 29, 2000

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M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She Had Some Horses (Paperback)

My introduction to Joy Harjo was her recitation of some of her poetry on a PBS special - that recitation included the title piece from this volume; it convinced me that I had to read her work. I have never been disappointed. Unlike her later books that contain a number of prose poems, this book contains only free form poems. However, the poems are often highly rhythmic in a musical sense - I was not suprised to find that she is an accomplished jazz saxophone player. Her images are creative and clear - brilliant word gems which are scattered in the poems: "horses neighing / at the razor sky"

The poetry is starkly truthful - universal human lives using alcohol to escape their pain, seeking love ... But this universality is expressed primarily from her Cree culture, expressed in a way that allows us to see another world view, to see her experience within that world view.

An example: "She feels the sky / tethered to the changing / earth, and her skin / responds, like a woman / to her lover."

Beautiful contemporary poetry not to be missed.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars in awe, January 31, 2008

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Sanford Abrahams (manlius, ny United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She Had Some Horses (Paperback)

I am in awe of the power of the title poem. I have read it over and over again for many years. So much power, truly awesome.