Joy Harjo è una poetessa, performer e scrittrice di fama internazionale appartenente alla Nazione Muscogee (Creek), nota soprattutto per la sua poesia evocativa e la sua arte musicale. Ha ricoperto per tre mandati il ruolo di 23° Poet Laureate degli Stati Uniti, diventando la prima nativa americana a detenere questa posizione. Harjo è autrice di dieci raccolte di poesia, tra cui le acclamate opere "How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems" e "She Had Some Horses". Il suo lavoro ha ricevuto prestigiosi riconoscimenti come il Ruth Lily Prize dalla Poetry Foundation e il Wallace Stevens Award dell'Academy of American Poets.
Le attività creative di Harjo vanno oltre la poesia, abbracciando musica, memorie e performance teatrali. Ha pubblicato sette album musicali pluripremiati, inclusi progetti che uniscono narrazione a influenze jazz e indigene. Il suo spettacolo solista, "Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light", esplora temi di identità e resilienza. Come memorialista, ha scritto "Crazy Brave", un resoconto profondamente personale del suo percorso come artista e donna Muscogee. La scrittura di Harjo riflette spesso la sua eredità culturale, intrecciando storia, spiritualità ed esperienze indigene contemporanee.
Impegnata sostenitrice delle arti native, Harjo presiede il consiglio direttivo della Native Arts & Cultures Foundation ed è cancelliera dell'Academy of American Poets. I suoi contributi sono stati riconosciuti con numerosi onori, tra cui una Guggenheim Fellowship e il Lifetime Achievement Award dal Native Writers Circle of the Americas. Con base a Tulsa, in Oklahoma, continua a creare e esibirsi mentre ricopre il ruolo di inaugural Artist-in-Residence per il Bob Dylan Center.
Libri per bambini
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The Good Luck Cat
2000
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Remember
2023
Collezioni
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She Had Some Horses
1982
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In Mad Love and War
1990
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The Woman Who Fell from The Sky
1994
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How We Became Human
2002
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An American Sunrise
2019
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
2022
Libri di non-fiction
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The Spiral of Memory (With: Laura Coltelli)
1996
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Soul Talk, Song Language
2011
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
2012
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
2021
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Catching the Light
2022
Poets on Poetry Books
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Four Poets on Poetry (By: Don Cameron Allen)
1959
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Modern Russian Poets on Poetry (By: Carl R. Proffer)
1976
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Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76 (By: Donald Hall)
1978
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Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (By: Galway Kinnell)
1978
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Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford)
1978
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To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living (By: Maxine Kumin)
1980
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Open Between Us (By: David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills)
1980
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Thinking About Morality ) (By: William K. Frankena)
1980
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Talking All Morning (By: Robert Bly)
1980
10
Pot Shots at Poetry (By: Robert Francis)
1981
11
The Old Poetries and the New (By: Richard Kostelanetz)
1981
12
A Company of Poets (By: Louis Simpson)
1981
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Don't Ask (By: Philip Levine)
1981
14
Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (By: John Meade Haines)
1982
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The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81 (By: Donald Hall)
1982
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Claims for Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
1982
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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (By: Philip Larkin)
1983
18
Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt (By: Marge Piercy)
1983
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Collected Prose (By: James Wright, Anne Wright)
1983
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Writing Like a Woman (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
1983
21
Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (By: Marvin Bell)
1983
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A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews (By: A. Poulin Jr., John Logan)
1983
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Platonic Scripts (By: Donald Justice)
1984
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Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews (By: Hayden Carruth)
1984
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A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry ) (By: John Frederick Nims)
1985
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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose (By: Anne Sexton, Steven E. Colburn)
1985
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You Must Revise Your Life (By: William Stafford)
1986
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A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (By: Tess Gallagher)
1986
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Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88 (By: Donald Hall)
1988
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Reviews and Essays, 1936-55 (By: James Reidel, Weldon Kees)
1988
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Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87 (By: Charles Wright)
1988
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Curiosities (By: William Matthews)
1989
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Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties (By: Tom Clark)
1990
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Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures (By: Nicholas Delbanco)
1990
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Wonderful Words, Silent Truth ( By: Charles Simic)
1990
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Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry (By: James McCorkle)
1990
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Poems Are Hard to Read (By: William Meredith)
1990
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Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays (By: Amy Clampitt)
1991
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The Line Forms Here (By: David Lehman)
1992
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Suicides and Jazzers (By: Hayden Carruth)
1993
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Words to Create a World (By: Daniel Hoffman)
1993
42
Plow Naked (By: Fred Chappell)
1993
43
Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview (By: Thom Gunn)
1993
44
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (By: Robert Creeley)
1993
45
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry (By: Alan Williamson)
1994
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Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (By: Gregory Orr)
1994
47
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller ( By: Charles Simic)
1995
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The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (By: Mary Kinzie)
1995
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Death to the Death of Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
1995
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Poetry Now - Poets on Poetry (By: Kerrie Pateman)
1995
51
Poetry's Old Air (By: Marianne Boruch)
1995
52
The Big Question (By: David Lehman)
1995
53
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
1995
54
Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews (By: Charles Wright)
1996
55
The Art of Poetry (By: Kenneth Koch)
1996
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The Spiral of Memory (With: Laura Coltelli)
1996
57
Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen (By: Philip Booth)
1996
58
A World That Will Hold All the People (By: Suzanne Gardinier)
1996
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The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose (By: Elizabeth Spires, Josephine Jacobsen)
1997
60
A Commonplace Book (By: Douglas Crase)
1997
61
Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s (By: Jonathan Holden)
1997
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The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (By: Allen Grossman)
1997
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Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (By: Carol Muske-Dukes)
1997
64
The Glass Anvil (By: Andrew Hudgins)
1997
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Orphan Factory ( By: Charles Simic)
1997
66
Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop (By: Anne Stevenson)
1998
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Poetry and Consciousness (By: C.K. Williams)
1998
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An Introduction to Rhyme (By: Peter Dale)
1998
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Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon)
1998
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Made with Words ( By: May Swenson)
1998
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All the Rage (By: William Logan)
1998
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An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill (By: W.S. Milne)
1998
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Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays (By: Anne Stevenson)
1998
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The Poetry of Everyday Life (By: John Hollander)
1998
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Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (By: Tess Gallagher, Greg Simon)
1999
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The Route as Briefed (By: James Vincent Tate)
1999
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Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (By: Geoffrey Paul O'Brien)
1999
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Responsive Reading (By: Edward Hirsch)
1999
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Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus)
2000
80
Poetry at One Remove (By: John Koethe)
2000
81
Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
2000
82
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams (By: Rachel Hadas)
2000
83
The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (By: Ron Padgett)
2000
84
The Gazer Within (By: James Marshall, Larry Levis, Andrew Miller, David St John, John Venable)
2001
85
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (By: Stanley Plumly, William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews)
2001
86
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85 (By: Philip Larkin)
2001
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Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (By: Linda Gregerson)
2001
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Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (By: Mark Jarman)
2002
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A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large (By: Stephen Yenser)
2002
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The Castle of Perseverance (By: Thomas M. Disch)
2002
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So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (By: Philip Levine)
2002
92
Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity (By: David Alan Mura)
2002
93
A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs (By: Charles Simic)
2003
94
The Metaphysician in the Dark (By: Charles Simic)
2003
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Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry (By: Dana Gioia)
2003
96
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life (By: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon)
2003
97
Fables of Representation (By: Paul Hoover)
2004
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Selected Prose (By: John Ashbery, Eugene Richie)
2004
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Poetry and What is Real (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
2004
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Memory Piano ( By: Charles Simic)
2006
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The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (By: John Yau)
2006
102
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language (By: Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Nolan)
2007
103
Power and Possibility (By: Elizabeth Alexander)
2007
104
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (By: Ed Dorn, Joseph Richey, Peter Michelson)
2007
105
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 (By: Alfred Corn)
2008
106
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (By: Reginald Shepherd)
2008
107
On Burning Ground (By: Sandra M. Gilbert)
2009
108
Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues (By: A.R. Ammons, Zofia Burr)
2009
109
Poetics of Dislocation (By: Meena Alexander)
2009
110
The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (By: Annie Ridley Crane Finch)
2010
111
Coming After: Essays on Poetry (By: Alice Notley)
2010
112
A Martian Muse (By: Reginald Shepherd, Robert Philen)
2010
113
The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (By: Martín Espada)
2010
114
Orange Alert (By: Mohammed Kazim Ali)
2010
115
Unauthorized Voices (By: Marilyn Hacker)
2010
116
Two Minds of a Western Poet (By: David Mason)
2011
117
The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose (By: Lawrence Joseph)
2011
118
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays (By: Cole Swensen)
2011
119
Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis (By: T.R. Hummer)
2012
120
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (By: Natasha Sajé)
2014
121
Yes, There Will Be Singing (By: Marilyn Krysl)
2014
122
Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (By: Boojkdl ajdp)
2014
123
The Necropastoral (By: Joyelle McSweeney)
2014
124
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (By: David Wojahn)
2015
125
Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (By: Bruce Bond)
2015
126
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine (By: Kazim Ali)
2015
127
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (By: Aaron Shurin)
2016
128
How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry (By: Khaled Mattawa)