The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems

About this book

Joy Harjo one of this countrys foremost Native American voices combines elements of storytelling prayer and song informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background in this her fourth volume of poetry. She is a mythic visionary and spiritual poet who draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit the realities of American culture and the concept of feminine individuality. In describing this volume Harjo has said: "I believe that the word poet is synonymous with the word truth teller. So this collection tells a bit of the truth of what I have seen since my coming of age in the late sixties."