Javelina (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joy Foster
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Alienation, Native Americans or American Indians, Arizona, Animals, Urban life
“Javelina” is an example of Harjo's prose poetry. The poem consists of four “paragraphs,” with a two-line stanza appearing between the second and third. Harjo aligns herself firmly with those “born of a blood/ who wrestled the whites for freedom” and who have “lived dangerously in/ a diminished system.” Comparing a young woman with the wild boar, the javelina, Harjo tells the story of a displaced young American Indian couple coming to the city.
Harjo introduces the javelina in the first stanza. At dusk, the animal comes out to feed. History, though, has violated...
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