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1) America is
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In words and pictures, this is a salute to our great country, the land of the freedom for us and for people all over the world.
5) Hiawatha
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An abridgement of the epic poem describing the legendary life and deeds of the Indian leader and hero.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pop-up book which illustrates the first verse of "America the Beautiful," line by line, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Statue of Liberty, and includes an attached smaller book containing an additional pop-up illustration for each later verse.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"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, the book contains powerful introductions...
12) Nature poem
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nature Poem follows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He'd slap a tree across the face. He'd rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he'd rather write odes to...
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology...
Publisher
Tupelo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking anthology of Indigenous poetry and prose, Native poems, stories, and essays are informed with a knowledge of both what has been lost and what is being restored. It presents a diverse collection of stories told by Indigenous writers about themselves, their histories, and their present. It is a celebration of culture and the possibilities of language, in conversation with those poets and storytellers who have paved the way. A...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace."--