Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light - Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love.

In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo's "poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times" (Sandra Cisneros, Millions).

Info autore

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal. Harjo has released seven award-winning albums and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros, Harjo Joy
• Con la collaborazione di: Cisneros Sandra (Prefazione)
• Editore: Norton
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.10.2024
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9781324036487
• ISBN: 978-1-324-03648-7
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.4 x 20.9 x 1.6 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 304 g
• Categorie: POETRY / Native American, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems, poetry;united states poet laureate, United States Poet Laureate