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Barcode37821002474217
LocationMarshall District
TitleCatching the light / Joy Harjo
AuthorHarjo, Joy, author
Call No810 HAR
CollectionAdult 800

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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 0300257031
International Standard Book Number 9780300257038
Personal Name Harjo, Joy, author
Title Statement Catching the light / Joy Harjo
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022
Physical Description 122 pages ; 18 cm
Series Statement Why I write
General Note The 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture
Summary, Etc. In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure--to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be
Subject-Personal Name Harjo, Joy
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Poets, American 20th century Biography
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Poets, American 21st century Biography
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Poetry Authorship
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Poets laureate United States Biography
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women poets, American 20th century Biography
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women poets, American 21st century Biography
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Indian women authors United States Biography
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Poetry Social aspects