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Poet Warrior: A Memoir (Large Print)
Hardback
Main Details
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir (Large Print)
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Joy Harjo
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:317 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 145 |
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Category/Genre | Large Print Thorndike Press All Dates Biographies |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781432894429
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Edition |
Large Print Edition
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Thorndike Press
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Imprint |
Thorndike Press
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NZ Release Date |
5 January 2022 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her poet-warrior road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth--owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
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