Description: A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.
Brief description: Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal. Harjo has released seven award-winning albums and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
Review Quotes: [An American Sunrise] touched me to the marrow.--Oprah "O, The Oprah Magazine"