Nov Maze Books Book Club Discussion: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
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The Maze Books’ Book Club pick for November is “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through”, a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, in honor of National Native American Heritage Month.
This month’s discussion will take place on TUESDAY, November 24th @6:30pm, due to the national Thanksgiving holiday. Copies are available at Maze Books (starting 3pm on 10/29) and online via our bookshop dot org affiliate page.
About the Anthology
“This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Diné poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete,” (via bookshop. org)
About the Author(s) / Editors
“Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
LeAnne Howe is the author, most recently, of Savage Conversations. She teaches at the University of Georgia - Athens.
Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Bright Raft in the Afterweather. She lives in California.” (via bookshop. org)
This month’s discussion will take place on TUESDAY, November 24th @6:30pm, due to the national Thanksgiving holiday. Copies are available at Maze Books (starting 3pm on 10/29) and online via our bookshop dot org affiliate page.
About the Anthology
“This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, ranging from Eleazar, a seventeenth-century Native student at Harvard, to Jake Skeets, a young Diné poet born in 1991, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature, without which no study of American poetry is complete,” (via bookshop. org)
About the Author(s) / Editors
“Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
LeAnne Howe is the author, most recently, of Savage Conversations. She teaches at the University of Georgia - Athens.
Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Bright Raft in the Afterweather. She lives in California.” (via bookshop. org)
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