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Name: Joy Harjo
Birth Date: May 9, 1951
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American, Creek
Gender: Female

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Biography of Joy Harjo
3,435 words, approx. 12 pages
The poetry of Joy Harjo has consistently evolved toward an increasingly diverse and complex vision of contemporary America. In her poems the land speaks through the voices of people who are intimately connected to it. Seeking a state of balance, Harjo...
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Biography of Joy Harjo
3,248 words, approx. 11 pages
To read the poetry of Joy Harjo is to hear the voice of the earth, to see the landscape of time and timelessness, and, most important, to get a glimpse of people who struggle to understand, to know themselves, and to survive. As Harjo has continued to...


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Joy Harjo Information
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Joy Harjo (b. Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played tenor saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited...


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World Literature Today
A brief conversation with Joy Harjo.(Interview)
11/01/2007: 654 words, approx. 2 pages
What recent book has captured your interest? I keep a stack of several books next to my bed in both Honolulu and Albuquerque. And I always carry a book or two with me. I've just started Lois Ann Yamanaka's novel Behold the Many....
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The American Indian Quarterly
In the Belly of a Laughing God: Reading Humor and Irony in the Poetry of Joy Harjo.
03/22/2000: 8,326 words, approx. 28 pages
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own...
 


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