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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

10 best books like How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 (Joy Harjo): Territory of Light, When My Brother Was an Aztec, Storyteller, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, Seam, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, Dream Work, Incarnadine: Poems, Selected Poems, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

Territory of Light
AuthorYūko Tsushima
ISBN0241312191
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...
When My Brother Was an Aztec
AuthorNatalie Díaz
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone,...
Storyteller
AuthorLeslie Marmon Silko
"She was an old woman now, and her life had become memories." She's Ayah, an Indian woman, and her story encapsulates the persecution and suffering of the Native Americans in the hands of the white colonizers.

I had always suspected that great literature often springs out of suffering, whether...
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
AuthorDean Young
ISBN1555975623
In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity,...
Seam
AuthorTarfia Faizullah
ISBN0809333252
The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi...
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
AuthorAmber Dawn
ISBN1551525003
As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...
Dream Work
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0871130696
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant...
Incarnadine: Poems
AuthorMary Szybist
ISBN1555976352
The troubadours
knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.
                        -from “The Troubadours etc.”
 
In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly...
Selected Poems
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811215202
Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry -- the work of a...
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
AuthorPhillip Lopate
ISBN1451696329
A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.

Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal...
Whereas
AuthorLayli Long Soldier
ISBN1555977677
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award

WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our...
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