The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems

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She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.

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She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
``The leap between the sacred and profane is as thin as fishing line.'' In her seventh book, Harjo (Secrets from the Center of the World), a member of the Creek tribe, makes this leap time after time. Working with a diction and a syntax that seem deliberately plain and declarative, she invokes ancient Native American myth, often from the midst of ordinary contemporary places such as Brooklyn, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Chicago's O'Hare airport (``Chicago rose up as a mechanical giant with soft insides buzzing''). Her myths endow everyday experience with a transformative meaning that rescues Harjo's characters from their sometimes isolating individuality. Yet the myths also heed the details of individual experience as ``the single complicated human becomes a wave of humanness.'' The warmth of her universalizing gift is inclusive, collecting the lives of taxi drivers, an infant granddaughter, and ``an Apache man who is passing by my table in a restaurant.'' Readers may likewise feel swept up in the gentle wave of Harjo's poetry and prose poetry, where ``every day is a reenactment of the creation story.'' (Dec.)
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Harjo (In Mad Love and War, Wesleyan Univ. Pr., 1990), a member of the Muscogee tribe, explores in these transcendent poems the myths imbedded in tribal memory and the spirituality they impart to everyday life.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393313628
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/28/1996
  • Pages: 69
  • Sales rank: 251,028
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Joy Harjo is an internationally known performer and writer of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She has written seven books of poetry, including She Had Some Horses and How We Became Human, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Reconciliation: A Prayer
I Tribal Memory
The Creation Story: "There are many versions of the creation story . . ." 3
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: "I traveled far above the earth . . ." 5
The Naming: "I never liked my mother's mother . . ." 11
The Flood: "Embedded in Muscogee tribal memory . . ." 14
A Postcolonial Tale: "The landscape of the late twentieth century . . ." 18
Mourning Song: "In the city in which I live . . ." 20
Northern Lights: "I was invited up north once . . ." 22
Who Invented Death and Crows and is There Anything We Can Do to Calm the Noisy Clatter of Destruction? "When I hear crows talking . . ." 26
The Myth of Blackbirds: "I believe love is the strongest force in the world . . ." 28
The Song of the House in the House: "I believe an architectural structure is interactive . . ." 31
Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace: "I think of Bell's theorum . . ." 33
Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century: "I was in a downtown Chicago hotel room . . ." 35
II The World Ends Here
Witness: "The Indian wars never ended . . ." 41
Wolf Warrior: "One morning I prepared to see a friend off . . ." 44
Promise of Blue Horses: "The heart is constructed of a promise..." 48
Sonata for the Invisible: "My son called me once at three in the morning . . ." 49
The Place the Musician Became a Bear: "I heard about Jim Pepper . . ." 51
The Other Side of Yellow to Blue: "For weeks the tune 'Contemplation' . . ." 54
The Field of Miracles: "It's possible to understand the world . . ." 55
Petroglyph: "Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's paintings . . ." 58
Fishing: "A few weeks before he died . . ." 60
Promise: "The spring before my granddaughter Krista's birth . . ." 62
The Dawn Appears with Butterflies: "I was on my way to Tuba City . . ." 64
Perhaps the World Ends Here 68
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