Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - List of Books by Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo (born Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American Canadian ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played alto saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and is of Cherokee descent. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

In 1995, Harjo received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

Bibliography   more

Discography   more

This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Joy Harjo", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
Total Books: 40
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
2022 - Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781324036487
ISBN-10: 1324036486
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

Catching the Light
2022 - Catching the Light [Why I Write] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780300257038
ISBN-10: 0300257031
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
  ?

Poet Warrior A Memoir
2021 - Poet Warrior a Memoir (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780393248524
ISBN-10: 0393248526
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
  ?

An American Sunrise Poems
2019 - An American Sunrise Poems (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781324003861
ISBN-10: 1324003863
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 1

Wings of Night Sky Wings of Morning Light A Play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses
An American Sunrise
2018 - An American Sunrise (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780393358483
ISBN-10: 0393358488
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

Truth to Power Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
2017 - Truth to Power Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780998622002
ISBN-10: 0998622001
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Poems
2017 - Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Poems (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780393353631
ISBN-10: 039335363X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

The Best of Cutthroat
2016 - The Best of Cutthroat (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780979563492
ISBN-10: 0979563496
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
  ?

Soul Talk Song Language Conversations with Joy Harjo
Crazy Brave A Memoir
2013 - Crazy Brave a Memoir (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780393345438
ISBN-10: 0393345432
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 1

For a Girl Becoming
2009 - For a Girl Becoming [Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780816527977
ISBN-10: 0816527970
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction
  ?

She Had Some Horses Poems
2008 - She Had Some Horses Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780393334210
ISBN-10: 039333421X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

She Had Some Horses
2005 - She Had Some Horses (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781560258308
ISBN-10: 1560258306
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

How We Became Human New and Selected Poems 19752001
2004 - How We Became Human New and Selected Poems 19752001 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780393325348
ISBN-10: 0393325342
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 2

A Map to the Next World Poems and Tales
2001 - A Map to the Next World Poems and Tales (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780393320961
ISBN-10: 0393320960
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 1

The Good Luck Cat
2000 - The Good Luck Cat (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780152321970
ISBN-10: 0152321977
Genre: Children's Books
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 2

A Map to the Next World Poems
2000 - A Map to the Next World Poems (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780393047905
ISBN-10: 0393047903
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  ?

Reinventing the Enemy's Language Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky Poems
1996 - The Woman Who Fell From the Sky Poems (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780393313628
ISBN-10: 039331362X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 1

The Spiral of Memory  Interviews
1996 - The Spiral of Memory Interviews [Poets on Poetry] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780472095810
ISBN-10: 0472095811
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
  ?

1990 - In Mad Love and War [Wesleyan Poetry Series] (Hardcover)
1989 - Secrets From the Center of the World [Sun Tracks, Bk 17] (Paperback)
Rescue of the Missing Buffalo [Reasons for Reading] (Other)
Ploughshares [Winter 2004-2005] (Paperback)