In Joy Harjo's American Book Award-winning memoir entitled Crazy Brave, she depicts roughly the first two decades of her life, beginning with her birth. Though many aspects of Harjo's life have been fraught with trauma and pain, she depicts the fine arts as powerful tools in the act of healing. Over the course of the memoir, Harjo presents themes including courage, the symbolism of the four directions, and societal oppression.
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 th...
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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...
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Joy Harjo