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I really liked this collection. These are powerful, deeply personal and political poems about being a woman, being someone from a group which has historically been oppressed and has experienced enormous generational trauma, and also about being alive. The title poem is quite famous, but the ‘horses’, which reappear in many of the poems, can mean a lot of different things. Women's poetry from the 1970s and 80s is🔥
Joy Harjo, 'She Had Some Horses' (1983)
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I really liked this collection. These are powerful, deeply personal and political poems about being a woman, being someone from a group which has historically been oppressed and has experienced enormous generational trauma, and also about being alive. The title poem is quite famous, but the ‘horses’, which reappear in many of the poems, can mean a lot of different things. Women's poetry from the 1970s and 80s is🔥
Joy Harjo, 'She Had Some Horses' (1983)
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Beautiful poem! "IT NEVER SEEMED WRONG TO LOVE YOU, IT'S JUST THAT WE WERE HERONS" by Lynn Finger https://www.cleavermagazine.com/it-never-seemed-wrong-to-love-you-its-just-that-we-were-herons-by-lynn-finger/ via @httpstwittercomCleaverMagazine #poetry #poem #peoms #poets