Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate, in conversation with first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, Luci Tapahonso.
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When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, Edited by Joy Harjo with LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Contributing Editors. United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize–winner N. Scott Momaday, 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. This anthology offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete.
