Poet Warrior

A Memoir

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

National best seller

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 US 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.

©2021 Joy Harjo (P)2021 Audible, Inc.

Majestic

A story rich with down to Earth cultural experiences of Joy Harjo. Her voice is filled with dreamy spiritual power ~ a wonderful oral history of her ancestors, her own life, and her descendants from her poetic perspective.

True Poet Warrior.

True Poet Spirit. True Poet Teacher. As Inspiring as Crazy Brave. Thank you Joy Harjo!

Love Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is one of my favorite poets of all time. It is incredibly powerful to hear her read her work in her voice so the listener can know how it was intended to be read.

Story Told with Heart

Amazingly deep and touchingly real as told by the poet, author herself. Helps me connect to my own roots and ancestors, and to my life’s journey.

Soul Medicine!

Drank in the words as they floated deep within my soul. A must read / listen for all!