How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by Joy Harjo (W. W. Norton, paperback)
Publication Date: January 17, 2004
Publisher Marketing: 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.
