How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by Joy Harjo

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Joy Harjo

272 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wound...

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reflective 95%
emotional 90%
challenging 40%
dark 30%
hopeful 30%
inspiring 25%
sad 20%
mysterious 15%
informative 10%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 61%
slow 27%
fast 11%

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