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Crystal (lifeinpoetry) | 4171 comments Please add the Audible edition — B0BS4GMDQ5 — of Catching the Light by Joy Harjo (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...).

* Title: Catching the Light
* Author(s) name(s): Joy Harjo (Author, Narrator)
* ASIN: B0BS4GMDQ5
* Publisher: Audible Studios
* Publication date: January 17, 2023
* Format: Audible Audio
* Page count (is hours count rounded up for audiobooks): 3
* Description:

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.

In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her 50 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.

* Language: English

* Link to book page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS4GMDQ5

Thank you!


Crystal (lifeinpoetry) | 4171 comments Thanks! :)


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