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10 best books like In Mad Love and War (Joy Harjo): Storyteller, Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, Behind My Eyes [With CD], Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete, Not Vanishing, Dien Cai Dau, The Book of Light, The Angel of History, Collected Poems, Red Suitcase

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...
Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
AuthorPaula Gunn Allen
ISBN0704342383
"Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent passion."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Native American scholar, literary critic, poet, and novelist Paula Gunn Allen, who is herself...
Behind My Eyes [With CD]
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0393065421
Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States s most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward...
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0156028611
This is one of the volumes I had hoarded for National Poetry Month. Alice Walker is better known as the author of The Color Purple, but she has written quite a few poems. These span from 1965 and are highly biographical, from her trip to Kenya to her work in voter registration in Mississippi, through relationship...
Not Vanishing
AuthorChrystos
ISBN0889740151
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
Dien Cai Dau
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0819511641
Most days, I sit in a Center for Writing, reviewing papers for college students, and clarifying the proper formatting and style required by the Modern Language Association (MLA), as relates to scholastic writing. As I notice varying writing styles, I suggest books for students to read, based on their...
The Book of Light
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN1556590520
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Howard University. Her awards include the Juniper Prize for Poetry, two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and...
The Angel of History
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060925841
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. These poems reflect the effects of such experience:...
Collected Poems
AuthorRobert Hayden
ISBN0871401592
Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World...
Red Suitcase
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1880238152
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her...
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375710760
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
This Great Unknowing: Last Poems
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811214583
A CRYPTIC SIGN

August. The woods are silent.
No sway of treetops, no skitter of squirrels,
no startled bird. Sky fragments
in rifts of canopy,
palest silken blue.

AWARE

When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among
themselves...
Your Native Land, Your Life
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393310825
The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life.


The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different...
Beginning with O
AuthorOlga Broumas
ISBN0300021119
Olga Broumas foi a 72a poeta a ganhar Yale Series of Young Poets e a primeira nao-anglofona que escreveu em inglês como segunda lingua. Nasceu na Grécia e assim como Safo, também escreve poemas saficos.
A primeira parte é intitulada Twelve Aspects of God, ela homeageia as deusas, semi-deusas,...
Jacklight
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0805010475
I am slowly tuning my ear in to poetry. I no longer need regular rhythms to carry me through a piece, or bind me to it.

But I'm still on the hunt for beauty. I can't help it. I want to be touched and moved. Beautifully. I don't want to be made uncomfortable by imagery, even as I master less familiar structures...
One Stick Song
AuthorSherman Alexie
ISBN1882413768
Poetry. Native American Studies. "Whether slyly identifying irony as a white man's invention, or deftly moving from prose-like multilayered narratives to formal poetry and song structures, this fifth collection from poet, novelist, and screenwriter Alexie demonstrates many of his skills. Most...
From Sand Creek
AuthorSimon J. Ortiz
ISBN0816519935
The massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U.S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen...
The Black Poets
AuthorDudley Randall
ISBN0553275631
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the...
Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology
AuthorNathalie Handal
ISBN1566563747
Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary traditions in the world, yet they are virtually unknown in the West. Uniting Arab women poets from the all over the Arab World anti abroad, Nathalie Handal has put together an outstanding collection that introduces poets who write in Arabic, French,...
The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages
AuthorN. Scott Momaday
ISBN0312187424
In The Man Made of Words Momaday chronicles his own pilgrimage as an author, retelling, through thirty-eight essays, allegorical stories, and autobiographical reminiscences, how he became one of the first recognized Native American writers of this century. By exploring such themes as land, language,...
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