{"product_id":"in-mad-love-and-war-wesleyan-poetry-series","title":"In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)","description":"Sacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.\n\nWinner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)\nWinner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991)\n2019 United States Poet Laureate\n\nJoy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe (\"a stolen people in a stolen land\"), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred ad secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the land; they are one with the deer and the fox, the hawk and the eagle, the sun, moon, and wind, and the seasons – \"spring\/ was lean and hungry with he hope of children and corn.\" There are enemies here, also lovers; there are ghost dancers, ancestors old and new, who rise again \"to walk in shoes of fire.\"\n\nIndeed, fire and its aftermath is a constant image in the burning book. Skies are \"incendiary\"; the \"smoke of dawn\" turns enemies into ashes: \"I am fire eaten by wind.\" \"Your fire scorched\/ my lips.\" \"I am lighting the fire that crawls from my spine\/ to the gods with a coal from my sister's flame.\"\n\nBut the spirit of this book is not consumed. It is not limited by mad love or war, and \"there is something larger than the memory\/ of a dispossessed people.\" That something larger is, for example, revolution, freedom, birth.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 081951182X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.081951182X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Harjo, Joy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43335548371005,"sku":"BVV.081951182X.G","price":5.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/081951182X-0.jpg?v=1783733275","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/in-mad-love-and-war-wesleyan-poetry-series","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}