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Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems /

Title:
Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems /
Author:
Harjo, Joy, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
Contents:
Part One: How It Came to Be -- "I lay my body down ..." -- For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet -- "For any spark to make a song ..." -- Rabbit Is Up to Tricks -- "Listened to an alto sax player ..." -- No -- "Humans were created by mistake ..." -- Once the World Was Perfect -- "When I woke up from a forty-year sleep ..." -- Cricket Song -- "After years you realize ..." -- Entering the Principality of O'ahu by Sky Roads -- "Each human is a complex, contradictory story ..." -- We Were There When Jazz Was Invented -- "This is only one of many worlds ..." -- Reality Show -- "When I blow my horn ..." -- Beautiful Baby, Beautiful Child -- Part Two: The Wanderer -- Talking with the Sun -- " 'One way to look at it, ' he told me ..." -- Spirit Walking in the Tundra -- "Where we lived, the settlers built their houses ..." -- Mother Field -- "Let's not shame our eyes ..." -- Walk -- "Midnight is a horn player ..." -- Charlie and the Baby -- "When I walk over to join you in the two-step ..." -- Had-It-Up-to-Here Round Dance -- " 'Through these doors walk some of the finest ... ' " -- One Day There Will Be Horses -- "When I returned to my ancestral grounds ..." -- Goin' Home -- "Our Mvskoke new year is inherently ..." -- The First Day Without a Mother -- Part Three: Visions and Monsters -- Falling, Falling -- "Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries ..." -- In Mystic -- "This is the kitchen table university ..." -- Listening to Blues in a Fish Joint, Downtown Denver -- "I would do anything for you, baby ..." -- Indian School NIght Song Blues -- "Do not feed the monsters ..." -- Suicide Watch -- "We all have helpers ..." -- This Morning I Pray for My Enemies -- "Ah, but what about being ..." -- Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings -- "The first horn I played ..." -- Forever -- "And then I argued with myself ..." -- I Am Not Ready to Die Yet -- "Whenever a saxophone begins ..." -- Report from the Edge of a Terrible Regime -- "In one house lives the sun ..." -- From DFW Airport at Dawn -- "What kept me going was that perfect song ..." -- The Last World of Fire and Trash -- Part Four: The World -- You Can Change the Story, My Spirit Said to Me as I Sat Near the Sea -- "Those who could see into the future predicted the storm ..." -- Sunrise Healing Song -- "I knew there was no way ..." -- It's Raining in Honolulu -- "The day went on as it always had ..." -- Praise the Rain -- "Time is a being, like you, like me ..." -- Rushing the Pali -- "I thought of all the doors ..." -- Surfing Canoes -- "I returned to the city of country swing ..." -- Speaking Tree -- "I heard a raven cry the blues ..." -- Everybody Has Heartache -- "Everyone comes into the world ..." -- For a Girl Becoming -- "I keep thinking of my boyfriend ..." -- Fall Song -- "My friend Sarita went visiting ..." -- For Keeps -- "I confided in him the longing ..." -- Equinox -- "What are you doing there, soul ..." -- Sunrise.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
PS3558.A62423 A6 2017 – Available