In REMEMBER, acclaimed Indigenous creators Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade invite young readers to pause and reflect on family, nature, their heritage, and the world around them.
This timeless poem paired with magnificent paintings makes for a picture book that is a true celebration of life and our human role within it.
Praise for REMEMBER
“With Caldecott Medalist Goade as illustrator, recent U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo’s acclaimed poem becomes a beauty to behold…A rich and reverential tribute to life, family, and poetry.”
—Booklist, starred review
“Evoking the cyclical feeling of a slow breath in and out, it’s a smartly constructed, reflective picture book based in connection and noticing.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“The teeming images thrillingly catch young viewers up as they swirl, circles emphasizing the cyclical nature of life. ‘Remember,’ closes the text, and children will.”
—The Horn Book, starred review
"A contemplative, visually dazzling masterpiece that will resonate even more deeply each time it is read.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.
In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light traces every occasion of a lifetime; it offers poems on birth, death, love, and resistance; on motherhood and on losing a parent; on fresh beginnings amidst legacies of displacement. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo’s inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from sunrise and horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth.
Praise for Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
"Joy Harjo’s work is both very old and very new. She tells stories in verse, sometimes highly compressed, sometimes long and winding, which ritually invoke and link her to roots and sources. She seeks continuity between what she calls her ‘past and future ancestors,’ and views each poem as a ceremonial object with the potential to make change. She has found a singing language for grief and meaningfully transforms the American story. Her work is a long-lasting contribution to our literature.”
—Edward Hirsch
“Joy’s poetry voice is indeed ancient. She has always been a visionary. A healer. A guide. . . . The poems in this collection are a song cycle, a woman warrior’s journey in this era, reaching backward and forward and waking in the present moment. A chant for survival.”
—Sandra Cisneros
“Harjo, though very much a poet of America, extracts from her own personal and cultural touchstones a more galactal understanding of the world, and her poems become richer for it. Here, she says, is a living, breathing earth to which we’re all connected. Here is unbridled potential for the poetic—in everything, even in ourselves.”
—Maya Phillips, The New Yorker
“These poems taken from half a century of Harjo’s work show the powerful words and moving themes that have made her an unforgettable voice in the world of poetry.”
—Book Riot
