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Poet warrior : a memoir
- Title
- Poet warrior : a memoir / Joy Harjo.
- Author
- Harjo, Joy
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- x, 226 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Harjo, Joy
- 1900-2099
- Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
- Poets, American > 21st century > Biography
- Indian women authors > United States > Biography
- Women poets, American > 20th century > Biography
- Women poets, American > 21st century > Biography
- Indian women poets > United States > Biography
- Poets laureate > United States > Biography
- Creek Indians > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous
- Indian women authors
- Indian women poets
- Poets, American
- Poets laureate
- Women poets, American
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical poetry.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- To imagine the spirit of poetry -- Prepare -- You might know me first -- Ancestral roots -- Becoming -- A postcolonial tale -- Diamond light -- Teachers -- Sunset.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3098
- ISBN
- 9780393248524
- 0393248526
- 9780393248531
- 0393248534
- 1324022019
- 9781324022015
- LCCN
- 2021025215
- 40030730379
- OCLC
- 1253442916
- Author
- Harjo, Joy, author.
- Title
- Poet warrior : a memoir / Joy Harjo.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780393248531
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030730379
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3098