Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo, 9780393353631, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. In this volume, Joy Harjo reaches her full maturity as a poet and as a human being, a teacher for us all. In Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, Harjo soars majestically, wails beautifully, and prays soulfully. Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. It is a collection for the young reader who questions her place … Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. 'Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings' uses powerful song-language and mesmerizing story-telling to weave an expansive new world. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings affirms that the personal is political, that the environmental is personal, and the microcosm cannot be separated from the macrocosm. The “idea” for a book isn’t how they arrive. In this volume, Joy Harjo reaches her full maturity as a poet and as a human being, a teacher for us all. Joy Harjo’s newest collection of poems, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, is divine, ecstatic, heartbreaking, heartfelt, dangerous, loving, musical, playful, serious. In this volume, Joy Harjo reaches her full maturity as a poet and as a human being, a teacher for us all. Much of Conflict Resolution centers around listening, and the understanding of poetry (and humanity in general) comes from listening. And at the end of this epic voyage the reader surfaces at sunrise. She is the first Native American to serve as poet laureate. Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings is a marvelous instrument that veins through a dark lode of American history. A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Lost ancestors are recalled. Harjo’s form, as we have come to expect, is grounded more in indigenous structures than in those of the Western canon. With Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, the first lady of American Indian poetry arrives. This original collection offers new poetic forms while evoking a range of artistic traditions and artists, such as Louis Armstrong and James Welch. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. From United States poet laureate Joy Harjo comes this radiant poem titled, For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings… It is a call to a deeper way of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. Harjo’s form, as we have come to expect, is grounded more in indigenous structures than in those of the Western canon. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings is a collection for the poet who understands the urgency to listen. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings – Joy Harjo. I chose this collection as it encompassed a wide range of her previous writing, and would give me an overview of her style. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings is a marvelous instrument that veins through a dark lode of American history. Winner of the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award, Conflict follows Harjo’s transcendent Crazy Brave (2012), a memoir that describes her family, her Native American history, and her voice as a poet. The poet’s finely tuned voice goes where ‘Midnight is a horn player,’ driven by tribute, prayer, and blues, excavating names, places, and dreams. Playful and somber, it goes back into the sorrow of history and forward toward “the jury of destiny.” On nearly every page, the language comes alive and makes the reader feel a sense of connection to earth, sky, cloud and eternity.