{"product_id":"poet-warrior-a-memoir-9780393248524","title":"Poet Warrior: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoy 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 \u003cem\u003eCrazy Brave\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoet Warrior\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarjo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. \u003cem\u003ePoet Warrior\u003c\/em\u003e sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarjo, Joy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJoy Harjo \u003c\/strong\u003eis a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and one previous memoir, \u003cem\u003eCrazy Brave\u003c\/em\u003e. Named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649424199954,"sku":"9780393248524","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b2183a79-7798-4277-b38a-418ed831d83d.jpg?v=1733263829","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/poet-warrior-a-memoir-9780393248524","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}