Joy Harjo
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Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age
$21.99 Add to cart“To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is there evil
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324094176
- Language: English
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Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief
$17.99 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem “Washing My Mother’s Body,” which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable.
As I wash my mother’s face, I tell he- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1984861360
- Language: English
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For a Girl Becoming
$18.99 Add to cartA baby girl is welcomed to the breathing world by generations of her family and set on the magnificent journey of becoming. As she grows, she is reminded of her connections to the natural world; to he
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324052244
- Language: English
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In Mad Love and War
$16.95 Add to cartSacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991)
2019 United States Poet LaureateJoy H
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 79
- Publish Date: May 21 1990
- ISBN10: 081951182X
- Language: English
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For a Girl Becoming: Volume 66
$19.95 Read moreTransformative moments in the cycle of life are a time for acknowledgment, a chance to guide a child’s path in a positive and loving direction.
Swirling images laden with both myth and personal meanin- Series: Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary (Hardcover) #66
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527970
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393073467
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartShe draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: August 17 1996
- ISBN10: 039331362X
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$25.00 Add to cartJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0393248526
- Language: English
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An American Sunrise: Poems
$25.95 Add to cartIn the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo re
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1324003863
- Language: English
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She Had Some Horses
$16.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood’s most intimate moments. Joy Harjo’s poems speak of women’s despair, of their imprisonm… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 17 2008
- ISBN10: 039333421X
- Language: English
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and f
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 039335363X
- Language: English
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Catching the Light
$10.95 Add to cartUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274068
- Language: English
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
$19.95 Add to cartThis landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Pri
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 25, 2020
- ISBN10: 0393356809
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave
$16.95 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 29, 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345432
- Language: English
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An American Sunrise: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358488
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022019
- Language: English
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
$25.00 Add to cartOver a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (C
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036486
- Language: English
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Remember
$18.99 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER – AN AMERICAN INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HONOR BOOK – A BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK HONOR AWARD – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal – Publishers Week
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593484843
- Language: English
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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
$17.95 Add to cartThis collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo’s twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in t… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17, 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325342
- Language: English
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Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartJoy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native po
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 393867919
- Language: English
