Catching the Light

United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing

About the author

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the twenty-third Poet Laureate of the United States. Her books include Poet Warrior and An American Sunrise. She is the recipient of a 2022 National Humanities Medal, presented by President Biden. Her numerous other awards include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle; the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award; and the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, awarded by the Yale University Library.

Summary

United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing

Product details

• Authors: Joy Harjo, Harjo Joy
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9780300274066
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27406-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Why I Write
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Gender studies: women, The Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous, LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous