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Catching the light
Author
Title
Catching the light / Joy Harjo.
ISBN
0300268688
9780300268683
0300257031
9780300257038
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (122 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"The 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture."
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure--to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Harjo, Joy. Catching the light. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 09, 2023
Series
Why I write
Contents
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Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Biographies.
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