Harjo, Joy

"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"--Provided by publisher.

This picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem urges readers to pay close attention to who they are, the world they were born into, and how everyone on Earth is connected.

"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--Provided by publisher.

"In . . . 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"--Provided by publisher.

"A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, 'poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering'"--Provided by the publisher.

"A . . . new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land"--OCLC.

American poet Joy Harjo's memoir detailing her journey to becoming a poet, covering her childhood with an abusive stepfather, the Indian arts boarding school she attended, and being a single teenage mother.

"United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

A collection of poems written by Joy Harjo between 1975 and 2001.

"A . . . new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land"--OCLC.