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Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She is a mythic, visionary, and spiritual poet who draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality. In describing this volume Harjo has said: "I believe that the word poet is synonymous with the word truth teller. So this collection tells a bit of the truth of what I have seen since my coming of age in the late sixties."

Book Details

Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393313628
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Joy Harjo
Published Date:
1996-08-17
Language:
English

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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