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A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets.
First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Regeneration | 7 | |
| Preface to the third edition | 9 | |
| 1 | Survivors | |
| Call it fear | 13 | |
| Anchorage | 14 | |
| What music | 16 | |
| Rain | 17 | |
| For Alva Benson, and for all those who have learned to speak | 18 | |
| Backwards | 20 | |
| Night out | 21 | |
| The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window | 22 | |
| One cedar tree | 24 | |
| The black room | 25 | |
| White bear | 27 | |
| Leaving | 28 | |
| Cuchillo | 29 | |
| Skeleton of winter | 30 | |
| Connection | 32 | |
| Kansas City | 33 | |
| Friday before the long weekend | 35 | |
| Song for Thantog | 36 | |
| Heartbeat | 37 | |
| Nandia | 38 | |
| Remember | 40 | |
| Vision | 41 | |
| New Orleans | 42 | |
| Nautilaus | 45 | |
| She remembers the future | 46 | |
| 2 | What I should have said | |
| Untitled | 49 | |
| What I should have said | 50 | |
| Moonlight | 51 | |
| Jemez | 52 | |
| Late summer leaving | 53 | |
| Motion | 54 | |
| Alive | 55 | |
| Your phone call at 8 A.M. | 57 | |
| The poem I just wrote | 58 | |
| The returning | 59 | |
| September moon | 60 | |
| 3 | She had some horses | |
| I. She had some horses | 63 | |
| II. Two horses | 65 | |
| III. Drowning horses | 66 | |
| IV. Ice horses | 67 | |
| V. Explosion | 68 | |
| 4 | I give you back |
Overview
A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets.
First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.