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Poet Warrior: A Memoir

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248534
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Poet Warrior: A Memoir by : Joy Harjo

Download or read book Poet Warrior: A Memoir written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, 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.

Crazy Brave

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073467
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Brave written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.

Warrior Poet

Author : Alexis De Veaux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393019544
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Warrior Poet written by Alexis De Veaux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited first biography of the author of "The Cancer Journals," an American icon of womanhood, poetry, African American arts, and survival.

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248518
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by : Joy Harjo

Download or read book Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize

Soldier

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731370
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Soldier written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.

An American Sunrise: Poems

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003871
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis An American Sunrise: Poems by : Joy Harjo

Download or read book An American Sunrise: Poems written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest—and most complicated—poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345807
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by : Joy Harjo

Download or read book How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.

She Had Some Horses

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039333421X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis She Had Some Horses by : Joy Harjo

Download or read book She Had Some Horses written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.

Word Warriors

Author : Alix Olson
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580052215
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Word Warriors written by Alix Olson and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the work of a variety of female spoken word artists, including Patricia Smith, Eileen Myles, Sarah Jones, Suheir Hammad, Staceyann Chin, and Michelle Tea.

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393867927
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Book Synopsis Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by : Joy Harjo

Download or read book Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307454592
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

Author : Aliki Barnstone
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805209972
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now written by Aliki Barnstone and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1992-04-28 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.

How I Discovered Poetry

Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101635398
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book How I Discovered Poetry written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement. A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.

Love Warrior

Author : Glennon Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1250075734
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Love Warrior written by Glennon Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club 2016 Selection "Riveting...a worthy investment...this book has real wisdom." --New York Times Book Review "A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry should really give it a read." -- Chicago Tribune "Provocative... I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too." -- Oprah Winfrey "This memoir isn't really about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with her husband; it is about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with herself. Utterly refreshing and... badass." -- Bustle.com A memoir of betrayal and self-discovery by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are all born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.

Writers & Company

Author : Eleanor Wachtel
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780394227382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Writers & Company written by Eleanor Wachtel and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Be the Poet

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039637
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book To Be the Poet written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.

Rabbit Warrior: A Cape Cod Pilgrimage of Healing and Self-Discovery

Author : Janet Calhoun
Publisher : Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN 13 : 1601265166
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Rabbit Warrior: A Cape Cod Pilgrimage of Healing and Self-Discovery written by Janet Calhoun and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbit Warrior is a captivating memoir of a transformative journey of renewal and discovery. Disoriented by intense mourning over the loss of both her mother and sister within a short time span, the author found consolation and reconciliation on a pilgrimage of solace to her beloved Cape Cod home. Emotionally overwhelmed, Janet turned inward for personal healing and wholeness. As she quietly contemplated the meaning of life and death, the Cape’s wildlife became a voice for inspiration and revelation. Horseshoe crabs, lobsters, a great blue heron, and rabbits “spoke” to her of life: change and evolution, pain and suffering, death and dying. Supported on her journey by daily journal writing that exposed persons, places and memories stored deep within, she unmasked falsehoods, gave up protective “magical thinking,” and examined relationships in an effort to live a more authentic life. Writers and fellow soul-searching travelers helped Janet dispel guilt, expunge destructive messages and peel away emotional layers accumulated over decades. As she traversed her soul, Janet resolved to move ever deeper towards her core, her spiritual center. A summer that began with overwhelming sorrow mixed with angry confusion, ended with transformative feelings of enlightenment, forgiveness, love and rebirth. Janet hopes that both her memoir, as well as her summer reading list, will provide a template for other Rabbit Warriors who might wish to undertake their own liberating journey as well.