Mar 7, 2023
Performer and writer Joy Harjo visits Google to discuss her journey
and her new book "Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems
for Fifty Years". This selection of poems celebrates the three-term
US Poet Laureate’s fifty years as a poet. She is an internationally
renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation.
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy’s poems intertwine
ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. For
this volume, she selects her best poems from across fifty years,
beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending
with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Detailed notes
on each poem offer insight into her inimitable poetics as she takes
inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and
loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth.
Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/WeavingSundown
to watch the video.