Copyright © 2002 by Joy Harjo
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
Credits:
Poems from The Last Song, originally published by Puerto Del Sol Press, from New Mexico State University, copyright © Joy Harjo 1975. Reprinted by permission of the author. Poems from What Moon Drove Me to This?, copyright © Joy Harjo 1980, reprinted by permission of the author. Poems from She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo, copyright © 1983, 1997 by Thunder’s Mouth Press, appear by their permission. Poetic prose from Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom, copyright © 1989 The Arizona Board of Regents, are reprinted by permission of the Arizona University Press. Poems from In Mad Love and War, copyright © 1990 by Joy Harjo, are reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press, and the excerpt from “Lucille” by Kenny Rogers is reprinted by permission of SBK Entertainment World. Poems from The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, copyright © 1994, and A Map to the Next World, copyright © 2000, are reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton.
The text of this book is composed in DeVinne with the display set in Torino
Composition by Tom Ernst
Manufacturing by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group
Book design by Dana Sloan
Production manager: Julia Druskin
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harjo, Joy.
How we became human : new and selected poems / Joy Harjo.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-393-05101-3
1. Indians of North America—Poetry. 2. Navajo Indians—Poetry. 3. Indian women—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3558.A62423 H69 2002
811’.54—dc21
2002000871
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* Not her real name.