Books

How We Became Human

New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Any acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

How We Became Human by Joy Harjo

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace.

Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.