![]() ![]() Named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow. She is the author of nine poetry collections and one previous memoir,Ĭrazy Brave. ![]() Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. ![]() "I turn and return to Harjo's poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language." ![]() "Show the remarkable progression of a writer determined to reconnect with her past and make sense of her present, drawing together the brutalities of contemporary reservation life with the beauty and sensibility of Native American culture and mythology.Alive with compassion, pain and love, this book is unquestionably an act of kindness." How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. 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. Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. Original Product Guaranteed - Imported from USA ![]()
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