Poet warrior : a memoir / Joy Harjo.
Poet warrior : a memoir / Joy Harjo.
By
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Harjo, Joy.
Publication Date
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2021
Publication Information
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company,
Physical Description
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x, 226 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Authors -- United States -- Biography.
Indian women.
Indigenous peoples.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Summary
:
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Weaving together the voices that shaped her, Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, the teachings of a changing earth, and the poets who paved her way. She explores her grief at the loss of her mother and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly among prose, song, and poetry, Poet Warrior is a luminous journey of becoming that sings with all the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780393248524
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