num_pages: 240
description: Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches losses and humble realizations of her poet-warrior road. A musical kaleidoscopic meditation Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.Weaving together the voices that shaped her Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child the teachings of a changing earth and the poets who paved her way. She explores her grief at the loss of her mother and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist mother wife and community member. Moving fluidly among prose song and poetry Poet Warrior is a luminous journey of becoming that sings with all the jazz blues tenderness and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
language: English
title: Poet Warrior: A Memoir
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company