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| |  | |  |  | | This spoken word album is released concurrently with the release of the third edition of Joy Harjo's classic book of poetry, She Had Some Horses from Thunder's Mouth Press/An imprint of Avalon Books. Also included are three bonus tracks from two of her previous albums. All are available from Mekko Productions, inc.. These poems are many of her most requested poems, some now songs. | | | | |
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- Call It Fear
- Anchorage
- Rain
- For Alva Benson and For Those Who Have Learned to Speak
- Backwards
- Night Out
- The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor
- The Cedar Tree
- White Bear
- Skeleton of Winter
- Nandia
- Remember
- Vision
- New Orleans
- Jemez
- The Poem I Just Wrote
- The Returning
- September Moon
- She Had Some Horses
- I Give You Back
- She Had Some Horses (Bonus track from Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century, Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice)
- The Woman Hanging From the 13th Floor (Bonus track from Native Joy for Real, Joy Harjo)
- Fear Song (Bonus track from Native Joy for Real, Joy Harjo)
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| | | | | | Ms. Harjo Writes the Hearts of Women |  |
Her words are stunningly visual and her visuals are visceral. Her writing style is tight, raw, cutting and goes straight to the heart and in the case of "The Woman Hanging", gut wrenching. Most of us at one time or another have been hanging by our own fingers, our own skin, our "own thread of indecision." Her words open the heart and the pathway from modern woman to the ancients, to the grandmothers and back again, always with honor, dignity and respect and a reverence for life. With her music, Ms. Harjo makes a beautiful bridge between the very old and traditional and the new and modern- a sax moaning three-o-clock-in-the-morning sounds, "I Release You" with a hip-hop feel. The words and the music in this album take me on a glorious journey through fear, loneliness, courage, honor, respect, love and forgiveness.
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