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Joy Harjo (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Joy Harjo has published mainly volumes of poetry, though she also has written many essays. She edited, with Gloria Bird, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writing of North America in 1997. She also wrote a screenplay, Origin of Apache Crow Dance (1985). In 2000, Harjo published her first children’s book, The Good Luck Cat, illustrated by Paul Lee.
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Joy Harjo is known for her use of Native American mythology in her work and for her Native American heritage as a member of the...
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