Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate,
invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble
realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic
and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8), 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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