Harjo, Joy

  • Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age

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    “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

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    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1324094176
    • Language: English
  • Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief

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    A 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

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    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1984861360
    • Language: English
  • For a Girl Becoming

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    A 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

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    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 1324052244
    • Language: English
  • In Mad Love and War

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    Sacred 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 Laureate

    Joy H

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 79
    • Publish Date: May 21 1990
    • ISBN10: 081951182X
    • Language: English
  • For a Girl Becoming: Volume 66

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    Transformative 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

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  • Crazy Brave: A Memoir

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    In 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
  • The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems

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    She 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
  • Poet Warrior: A Memoir

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    Joy 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

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    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 0393248526
    • Language: English
  • An American Sunrise: Poems

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    In 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

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    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: August 13 2019
    • ISBN10: 1324003863
    • Language: English
  • She Had Some Horses

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    First 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
  • Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

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    In 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

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    • Author: Harjo, Joy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: January 24 2017
    • ISBN10: 039335363X
    • Language: English
  • Catching the Light

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    United 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
  • How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

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    This 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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