[PDF] Poet Warrior A Memoir eBook

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393248534

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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.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393073467

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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.

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786731370

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A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty in 1940s New York. “There was a war on against colored people, against poor people,” Jordan writes, and she watches her mother turn inward in her suffering, her father lashing out, often violently, against his own daughter. She learns to harden herself, to be a “soldier,” while preserving a deep capacity for love and wonder. Poignantly exploring the nature of memory, imagination, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the vivid world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1324003871

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A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. 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.

Author : Alexis De Veaux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393019544

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The long-awaited first biography of the author of "The Cancer Journals," an American icon of womanhood, poetry, African American arts, and survival.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 039333421X

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A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2004-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393345807

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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.

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307454592

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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.

Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101635398

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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.

Author : Aliki Barnstone
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 1992-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0805209972

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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.