Native American Performance Poet Joy Harjo reads How to Get Rid of Fear from her most famous book She Had Some Horses.
This week's Pause for Poetry focuses on Joy Harjo's reading of her poem "I Give You Back: A Poem to Get Rid of Fear" from her most famous book She Had Some Horses, which is being re-released by W.W. Norton this year.
Member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, Joy Harjo has written seven books of poetry and released three award-winning CDs. She is known for her passionate, musical "spoken word" performances of her work, which often include her playing the saxophone.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
