Catching the Light (Why I Write) - Tapa blanda

Libro 5 de 8: Why I Write

Harjo, Joy

 
9780300274066: Catching the Light (Why I Write)
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0300274068 ISBN 13: 9780300274066
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2023

Sinopsis

National Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
 
“Her enduring message―that writing can be redemptive―resonates: ‘To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert “I am.”’ The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling.”―Publishers Weekly
 
“Harjo writes as if the creative journey has been the destination all along.”―Kirkus Reviews
 
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. Composed 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―in both the private, individual journey and as a vehicle for prophetic, public witness.
 
Harjo insists that 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.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the twenty-third Poet Laureate of the United States. Her books include Poet Warrior and An American Sunrise. She is the recipient of a 2022 National Humanities Medal, presented by President Biden. Her numerous other awards include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle; the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award; and the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, awarded by the Yale University Library.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300274068
ISBN 13 
9780300274066
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
128
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780300257038: Catching the Light (Why I Write)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0300257031 ISBN 13:  9780300257038
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2022
Tapa dura