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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS Reader Resources NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS Reader Resources How We Became Human by Joy Harjo Writer and musician Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Her many awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas; the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets; the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award; and two National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowships. How We Became Human (W.W. Norton, 2002) offers an introduction to her poetry over the first 26 years of her career, including poems from her groundbreaking book She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983). "To read the poetry of Joy Harjo is to hear the voice of the earth, to see the landscape of time and timelessness, and, most important, to get a glimpse of people who struggle to understand, to know themselves, and to survive" (Poetry Foundation). Says author Sandra Cisneros, "Her hero's journey is a gift for all those struggling to make their way." "Joy Harjo is a giant-hearted, gorgeous, and glorious gift to the world," says author Pam Houston. "Her belief in art, in spirit, is so powerful, it can't help but spill over to us—lucky readers." What is the NEA Big Read? A program of the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. Managed by Arts Midwest, this initiative offers grants to support innovative community reading programs designed around a single book. For more information about the NEA Big Read, visit www.arts.gov/partnerships/nea-big-read For information about the NEA, visit www.arts.gov For information about Arts Midwest, visit www.artsmidwest.org NEA Big Read • The National Endowment for the Arts 1 About the Book "Don't worry about what a carries over into other poems, such as "Call It Fear," and poem means. Do you ask "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window." "I what a song means before feel strongly that I have a responsibility to all the sources you listen? Just listen." that I am," said Harjo, "...to all voices, all women, all of my tribe, all people, all earth" (Poetry Foundation). Several of —Joy Harjo the poems are infused with spiritual and historical memory, To open Joy Harjo's How We such as "New Orleans," which describes how an American Became Human: New and city was built over a place where indigenous people used to Selected Poems 1975-2001 live, and how their memory survives in the stones. (W.W. Norton, 2002) is to be For her book Secrets from the Center of the World (University immersed in the power of of Arizona Press, 1989), Harjo collaborated with astronomer nature, spirituality, memory, and photographer Stephen Strom, writing prose poems violence, and the splintered inspired by his photographs of Navajo country. In these history of America's short, direct, often philosophical poems—such as "My indigenous peoples. To read her poetry is to get drawn into House Is the Red Earth" and "Anything That Matters"—Harjo the rhythms, sounds, and stories of Harjo's Creek heritage. describes the center of the world as a modest place, one The collection offers a glimpse into the first quarter-century easily overlooked, but essential. In Harjo's book, In Mad Love of Harjo's career, and includes an introduction about the and War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), the poems, circumstances at play in her life when she wrote the poems. while also often concerned with the notion of place, Drawing together "the brutalities of contemporary confront "violence, revenge, loss, disillusionment, [and] reservation life with the beauty and sensibility of Native brutality" in order "to reach a human, miraculously graced American culture and mythology," writes Publishers Weekly, center" (Choice). "...How do we imagine ourselves with an the book shows "the remarkable progression of a writer integrity and freshness outside of the sludge and despair of determined to reconnect with her past and make sense of destruction [resulting from colonization]?" asks Harjo (PEN her present." "I am driven to explore the depths of creation America). and the depths of meaning," said Harjo. "Being native, female, a global citizen in these times is the root, even the In her introduction to How We Became Human, Harjo writes palette" (Terrain). that she doesn't believe there's a distinction between poetry, stories, events, and music—a point of view that The collection begins with poems from Harjo's first two seems to have especially informed the poems from The chapbooks, The Last Song (Puerto del Sol Press, 1975) and Woman Who Fell from the Sky (W.W. Norton, 1994), and A What Moon Drove Me to This (I. Reed Books, 1979). Many of Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales (W.W. Norton, 2000), the poems explore the idea of place—a longing to get from which blend myth and traditions of music and oral one place to another, a longing for a place to feel safe and storytelling with everyday experiences and historical whole. In the poem "3 A.M," the speaker has an epiphany as realities. "If Whitman were a Muskogee jazzman, he would she travels home from Albuquerque in the middle of the have written [The Woman Who Fell from the Sky]," writes night. In "Are You Still There?" the speaker has a fraught Booklist. Of A Map to the Next World, Publishers Weekly writes: conversation across miles of telephone wire. In "Crossing "[The book] reveals regenerative human cycles that occur the Border," the speaker feels a crushing sense of suspicion even in the midst of the most oppressive histories." In that as she crosses into Canada. In contrast, poems such as book's title poem, Harjo splices together unexpected "Watching Crow, Looking South Toward the Manzano imagery and sensations—for example, the smell of Mountains," and "for a Hopi silversmith" convey a sense of traditional cooking and the view of a far-away galaxy—to peace and connection that comes from observing natural explore what it truly means to be "human." beauty. In addition to the selections from past collections, How We The collection also includes poems from She Had Some Became Human includes notes about many of her poems, as Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983), now considered to well as a number of previously unpublished poems, be a classic. The title poem, propelled forward by the including "When the World as We Knew It Ended," written chanting of the title phrase, wrestles with the question of after September 11, 2001, and "Morning Prayers," which how our own contradictory parts can coexist. The question references the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech "I've Been NEA Big Read • The National Endowment for the Arts 2 to the Mountaintop." Among these newer poems is also "It's poetry is not only a way to save the sanity of those who Raining in Honolulu," from which the collection's title—"how have been oppressed to the point of madness, but that it is we became human"—is drawn. "Alive with compassion, a tool to rebuild communities and, ultimately, change the pain and love, this book is unquestionably an act of world." kindness," writes Publishers Weekly. "[Harjo] contends that About the Author Joy Harjo (b. 1951) "We are in a dynamic story her grandmother and her aunt, both of whom were field, a field of dreaming. Move talented visual artists. In first grade, she drew a picture of as if all things are possible." ghosts and colored them green, scandalizing the other students who asserted that ghosts could only be white. She —Joy Harjo in Literary Mama would never forget the vehemence of their reaction. At 16, Writer and musician Joy Harjo escaped her difficult home life to attend the Institute Harjo—her surname means “so of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. Early in her adult brave you’re crazy”—was born life, she experienced two rough marriages, single in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a motherhood, and battles with alcohol, self-abuse, and panic member of the Mvskoke (also attacks. known as Muscogee) (Creek) When she discovered poetry, she says, it was a revelation Nation. One of her earliest that changed her life. After receiving her BA from the memories is a sense of University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, Harjo was accepted Photo by Melissa Lukenbaugh awakening when she first to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA heard Miles Davis’s horn on in creative writing. “A lot of my poetry is inspired by the radio in her parents’ car. “That music opened an injustice, love, the move for balance, and compassion,” she incredible door,” she told National Public Radio. “I could told Sampsonia Way. “This debris of historical trauma, family almost see the shape of my whole life.” In Harjo’s early trauma… stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw years, she would often hear her mother singing, or find her material to make things with and to build a bridge … over writing a song at the kitchen table. Of Cherokee, Irish, that which would destroy you” (National Public Radio). French, and German descent, her mother loved lyric poetry. Among her influences are the poets June Jordan, Galway She was like fire, Harjo says—always full of inspiration. Kinnell, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, Charles Bukowski, Rubén Unable to afford books, and with just one dress to wear, her Darío, Mahmoud Darwish, and Pablo Neruda, as well as mother dropped out of school in eighth grade.
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