Copyright © 2008, 1983 by Joy Harjo
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First published as a Norton paperback 2008
Acknowledgment is gratefully given to the following publications
in which some of the featured poems originally appeared:
Magazines: Heresies, Spawning the Medicine River, Contact II, Corn Soup,
Frontiers, Conditions, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Cedar Rock, Greenfield Review,
River Styx, Midwest Alliance Newsletter, National Women Studies Newsletter.
Anthologies: Artists for Survival, Coyote’s Journal, Songs from Turtle Island,
Native American Literature (Twayne U.S. Author Series), The Woman Poet.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harjo, Joy.
She had some horses / Joy Harjo.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-393-33421-0 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PS3558.A62423S5 2008
811 .54—dc22
2008030385
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