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Catching the light
- Title
- Catching the light / Joy Harjo.
- Author
- Harjo, Joy
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 122 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure--to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be."--Dust jacket.
- Series Statement
- Why I write
- Uniform Title
- Why I write series.
- Subject
- Harjo, Joy
- 1900-2099
- Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
- Poets, American > 21st century > Biography
- Poets laureate > United States > Biography
- Indian women authors > United States > Biography
- Women poets, American > 20th century > Biography
- Women poets, American > 21st century > Biography
- Poetry > Authorship
- Poetry > Social aspects
- Indian women authors
- Poets, American
- Poets laureate
- Women poets, American
- Poetry
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- "The 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture."
- Call Number
- JFC 22-454
- ISBN
- 9780300257038
- 0300257031
- LCCN
- 2022934816
- OCLC
- 1310155936
- Author
- Harjo, Joy, author.
- Title
- Catching the light / Joy Harjo.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Why I writeWhy I write series.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780300268683
- Research Call Number
- JFC 22-454