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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by Jennifer Elise Foerster, Leanne Howe, Joy Harjo

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dominic_t's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This is a beautiful collection of poems from Indigenous people of many nations. It introduced me to tons of new poets and writers, and I look forward to checking out their other work. The essays before each section were very informative and really set the stage for the upcoming poems. The organization of the anthology was by region, and that worked really well.
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carolinefaireymeese's review

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dark funny hopeful lighthearted sad slow-paced
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Harjo and her associate/managing editors joyfully marry the art of curation and anthologizing (often the bedfellows of cronyism and exclusion) with a well-organized celebration of the breadth of (written, English) Native Nations poetry. To a scale unlike any I have witnessed before, each poet is provided with a thorough biography and introduction, as well as the geographical regions each poet lives in or has roots in. And the poems themselves--they are everything, they span everything. Elegy for the horrors and joys of the past, commitment to and interrogation of the dualism of the present, scanning the future for a trail through language to illuminate once-occupied space and to reassert Native Nations' place in the cosmos.
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