"The poet Joy Harjo claims to remember her struggle through the birth canal –– leaving a past world as a warrior with weapons in hand and entering this one "puny and female and Indian in lands that were stolen. Most people don't wonder about the lives they might have lived before they were born into this one; most of us don't go beyond abstractions such as "heaven" or "spirit" when we wonder about what follows our departure from this earth. But Harjo has spent decades exploring the connections between worlds in story and song."
Native American poet and musician Joy Harjo, who visits Albany on Thursday, Nov. 1, is profiled in
High Country News, a Colorado based magazine about public policy and culture in the American West:
http://www.hcn.org/hcn/issues/44.17/already-gone-a-profile-of-native-american-poet-joy-harjo
