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Critical Survey of Poetry by Philip K. Jason (Editor); Tracy Irons-Geroges (Editorial Coordinator); Christina J. Moose (Editorial Coordinator); Dawn P. Dawson (Editor-In-Chief)
Call Number: Ref. PN 1021 .C7 2003
ISBN: 1587650711
Publication Date: 2002
The Critical Survey of Poetry provides critical, historical, and biographical information about world poets. Seven volumes.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: the Nineteenth Century by Eric L. Haralson (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. PS3 16 .E53 1998
ISBN: 1579580084
Publication Date: 1998
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: the Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. PS 323.5 .E53 2001
ISBN: 1579582400
Publication Date: 2001
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Roland Greene (Editor-In-Chief); Stephen Cushman (Editor); Clare Cavanagh (Editor); Jahan Ramazani (Editor); Paul Rouzer (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. PN 1021 .N39 2012
ISBN: 9780691133348
Publication Date: 2012
Also available as an e-book.

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Welcome to the Poets and Poetry guide.

The Poets and Poetry guide serves as an introduction to the resources in the Standish Library's collections related to poets and poetry. (You cannot have one without the other.) The resources included are just a selection from those available.

Featured Poet: Joy Harjo

In 2019, distinguished author Joy Harjo was named the United States' 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She has since been appointed to serve a second two-year term starting in September 2020. For information about the position of Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo, and past Poet Laureates, check out the this page from the Library of Congress.

Books by Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS 3558.A62423 A64 2019
ISBN: 9781324003861
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS 3558.A62423 Z46 2012
ISBN: 9780393073461
Publication Date: 2012
In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet.
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS 3558.A62423 A6 2017
ISBN: 9780393353631
Publication Date: 2017
In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS 3558.A62423 I6 1990
ISBN: 9780819511829
Publication Date: 1990
Soul Talk, Song Language by Joy Harjo; Tanaya Winder; Laura Coltelli (Other)
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780819571502
Publication Date: 2011
Joy Harjo is a "poet-healer-philosopher-saxophonist," and one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. She has spent the past two decades exploring her place in poetry, music, dance/performance, and art. Soul Talk, Song Language gathers together in one complete collection many of these explorations and conversations.
Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo; Stephen E. Strom (By (photographer))
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 S33 1989
ISBN: 0816511136
Publication Date: 1989
"My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's photographs lead you to that place," writes Joy Harjo. "The camera eye becomes a space you can move through into the powerful landscapes that he photographs. The horizon may shift and change all around you, but underneath it is the heart with which we move." Harjo's prose poems accompany these images, interpreting each photograph as a story that evokes the spirit of the Earth. Images and words harmonize to evoke the mysteries of what the Navajo call the center of the world.
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky : poems by Harjo, Joy
Call Number: PS 3558.A62423 W6 1994
Publication Date: 1994