Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

by Joy Harjo

Book Overview

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039335363X
• ISBN13: 9780393353631
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"