Jan 2, 2010
She Had Some Horses springs directly from Joy Harjo’s experience as an American Indian and as a woman. The joining of these two perspectives moves her poetry from the present in which her personae speak to a temporal space that, at times, seems to span millennia and to articulate experiences in a universal voice. In particular, Harjo conjoins the deep losses suffered by contemporary American Indians—who essentially have been removed from their cultural roots and lands—with those reductions and infringements that women, whether American Indian or of...
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