Bruchac, Joseph, and Janet Witalec, eds., Smoke Rising: The Native North American Literary Companion, Visible Ink Press, 1995.

This collection of poetry and prose by and about Native
Americans is a comprehensive resource for anyone
interested in Indian culture. It runs over 400
pages and includes four of Joy Harjo's poems.

Harjo, Joy, She Had Some Horses, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983.

This early poetry collection by Harjo is one of her
most popular. The title poem is often anthologized,
and the book as a whole is a good introduction to the
Native American themes that run throughout subsequent
collections.

—, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1996.

The title of this collection refers to the Iroquoian creation
myth about a goddess who falls from the sky.
In Harjo's poem, however, the goddess becomes a
"strange beauty in heels" who drops through a plate
glass...