BOOKS - Catching the Light (Why I Write)
Catching the Light (Why I Write) - Joy Harjo October 4, 2022 PDF  BOOKS
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Catching the Light (Why I Write)
Author: Joy Harjo
Year: October 4, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 944 KB
Language: English

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 American culture, 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.

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