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Crazy Brave: A Memoir (2012)

by Joy Harjo(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393073467 (ISBN13: 9780393073461)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: What makes a poet? For Harjo, the story-telling spirit within her and the rough experiences of her early life turned into poetry in her early 20s. This memoir tells the story of how it happened. We learn about broken families and abuse, dreams and adventures in the spirit world, the challenges of being Native American in a white-dominated world, and Harjo’s struggle to emerge free to be her creative self. She offers a variety of formats here, including poems and dreams to tell her inspiring story.
review 2: This is a great book, with amazing, insightful, wise writing. Because of that, I couldn't get through it- when her account of the evil man who oppressed her family began, it was entirely consuming in its terribleness. Engulfed, trying to get out of the hea... mored space created by the book was like trying to escape from heavy mud up to the neck. I was not easily able to shake off depression from that. Men who do what that man did deserve to be tied to railroad tracks with their mouths propped open with blocks or clamps, so that people can take turns menstruating and defecating in their mouth in the hours, days, or weeks leading up to their death by collision. My heart would not be stirred to any modicum of pity by that fate for such a person. less

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