Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings : Poems

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River.Stomp dance songs, blues and jazz ballads echo throughout.Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country.Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.