Weekend Pick for April 12, 2024
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| To remind our readers, our April contributor of the Weekend Picks is Jen Nails, a teacher, librarian, and an author in Las Vegas, NV. This Friday, Jen features an incredible work of Joy Harjo, a former Poet Laureate of the United States. |  |
 | This beautiful collection of 50 poems selected by the author allows the reader to enter into the different phases of her life as she writes about love, loss, childbirth, displacement and many other themes during varying stages and rites of passages that she has experienced. Notes and background on each poem is included and will offer readers further insight into the impetus and inspiration for each piece. A gorgeous forward by Sandra Cisneros grounds the reader in the vision of Harjo as a young woman starting out, and gives weight and context to all of the poems included in the book. A stunning collection of work highlighting the poet's finest works. |
Notes and background on each poem is included and will offer readers further insight into the impetus and inspiration for each piece. A gorgeous forward by Sandra Cisneros grounds the reader in the vision of Harjo as a young woman starting out, and gives weight and context to all of the poems included in the book. A stunning collection of work highlighting the poet's finest works.
The material is appropriate for teens and adults. Those who love the work of Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldua, and Marge Piercy will devour this collection. Joy Harjo is a former, three-term Poet Laureate of the United States, as well as a musician, visual artist, and member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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