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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Sandra Cisneros, Joy Harjo
2 reviews
katharina90's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Another brilliant collection of Joy Harjo’s work. Really enjoyed reading her notes at the end as well. They add so much depth to the poems I loved and some entries are so beautifully written that they could easily stand on their own.
Favorites include:
-The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles
-For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
-Rabbit Is Up to Tricks
-Fall Song
-Break My Heart
-Prepare
-How Love Blows Through the Trees
“I’d rather understand how to sing from a crow who was never good at signing or much of anything but finding gold in the trash of humans.
So what are we doing here? I ask the crow parading on the ledge of falling that hangs over this precarious city.
Crow just laughs and says wait, wait and see and I am waiting and not seeing anything, not just yet.
But like crow I collect shine of anything beautiful I can find.”
From: The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles
[From the notes: “Crow or Raven is often present at doorways of transformation.”]
“We will plant songs where there were curses.”
From: It’s Raining in Honolulu
“Be who you are, even if it kills you.
It will. Over and over again,
Even as you live.
Break my heart, why don’t you?”
From: Break My Heart
Favorites include:
-The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles
-For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
-Rabbit Is Up to Tricks
-Fall Song
-Break My Heart
-Prepare
-How Love Blows Through the Trees
“I’d rather understand how to sing from a crow who was never good at signing or much of anything but finding gold in the trash of humans.
So what are we doing here? I ask the crow parading on the ledge of falling that hangs over this precarious city.
Crow just laughs and says wait, wait and see and I am waiting and not seeing anything, not just yet.
But like crow I collect shine of anything beautiful I can find.”
From: The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles
[From the notes: “Crow or Raven is often present at doorways of transformation.”]
“We will plant songs where there were curses.”
From: It’s Raining in Honolulu
“Be who you are, even if it kills you.
It will. Over and over again,
Even as you live.
Break my heart, why don’t you?”
From: Break My Heart
Content Warnings
Minor: Colonisation
readingwithkaitlyn's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Suicide, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Drug abuse, Genocide, and Death
Divorce, sodomy, death threats, poverty, torture, 9/11, assimilation, Covid.
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