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Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo's \"poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times\" (Sandra Cisneros, \u003cem\u003eMillions\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1324036486\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781324036487\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Harjo, Joy, Cisneros, Sandra, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. 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Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Diné poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. \u003cem\u003eWhen the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through\u003c\/em\u003e offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0393356809\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780393356809\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Harjo, Joy, Howe, Leanne, Foerster, Jennifer Elise\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. 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