She Had Some Horses (Paperback)

~ (Author) "There is this edge where shadows and bones of some of us walk backwards..." (more)
Key Phrases: woman hanging, Noni Daylight, Kansas City

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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 Description

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 74 pages
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560251190
• ISBN-13: 978-1560251194
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,224,649 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

By	M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Only Did She Have Some Horses, But Some Damn Good Poetry Too, December 8, 2008

By	Sacramento Book Review "SacramentoBookReview.com" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: She Had Some Horses (Paperback)

Although it is occasionally cryptic, She Had Some Horses presents a collection that contains within it's repertoire one of the best poetic qualities-it conveys general feelings as opposed to rigid and specific details. Through the use of outwardly dissociative comparisons and actions, Harjo creates moods and atmospheres with each offering in the collection. An uncommon talent, Harjo's poetry has a way of swirling off of the page and into your ears, running its syllables over your mind again and again and creating an emotion as easily as music does.

With moods set, her imagery jumps off of the page and into the eyes that are hidden deep within the imagination centers of your brain, and it does so with ease-as if it were second nature. More than a few of the poems seem like they were written once, perfect first drafts, showing that Harjo has yet another valuable poetic asset. In a genre filled to the brim with both the strange and eccentric, and the dull and boring, Harjo's style manages quite well to stand out.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Sanford Abrahams (manlius, ny United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.