Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Name: Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
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ISBN: 9781324036487

by Joy Harjo

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Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love.

In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo's "poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times" (Sandra Cisneros, Millions).

Publisher:: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:: 9781324036487
Binding:: Hardcover
Pages:: 160
Authors:: Joy Harjo
Published Date:: 2022-11-01
Language:: English

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About Joy Harjo

The 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo served from 2019 to 2022 as the first Native American to hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she is a poet and musician and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her collections include She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983) and An American Sunrise (W.W. Norton, 2019). She received the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award in 2015 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2017.

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