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She lays her mother to rest in the landscape of her memory, honoring the hands that raised her, the body that protected her, and the legs that carried her mother through adversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving, comforting, and deeply emotional, \u003ci\u003eWashing My Mother’s Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender look at mother-daughter relationships, the complexity of grieving the loss of a parent, and the enduring love of those left behind.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205816140149,"sku":"9781984861368","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781984861368_64c0916f-3da5-4d3a-9642-5fa1751b927b.jpg?v=1786031919"},{"product_id":"9780393358483","title":"An American Sunrise – Poems","description":"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice.   A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest—and most complicated—poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288439140725,"sku":"9780393358483","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393358483_490078ea-ab18-4c67-be99-79349c0a82e5.jpg?v=1786013568"},{"product_id":"9780393334210","title":"She Had Some Horses – Poems","description":"First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. 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Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289594179957,"sku":"9780393345438","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393345438_1e9e4e53-1825-4de0-81a8-150331c20198.jpg?v=1786013433"},{"product_id":"9780393353631","title":"Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings – Poems","description":"In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a \"magician and a master\" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289654145397,"sku":"9780393353631","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393353631_91db214f-77bf-4481-b880-1eb4e8da666b.jpg?v=1786013491"},{"product_id":"9781324022015","title":"Poet Warrior – A Memoir","description":"Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8), Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.   Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife and community member.   Moving fluidly between prose, song and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297717793141,"sku":"9781324022015","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324022015_a042f583-0f54-4a3f-ae81-5dd4d0ac9f8a.jpg?v=1786018506"},{"product_id":"9780593484845","title":"Remember","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN AMERICAN INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HONOR BOOK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK HONOR AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUS Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s iconic poem \"Remember,\" illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemember the sky you were born under, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnow each of the star's stories. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemember the moon, know who she is. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemember the sun's birth at dawn, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat is the strongest point of time. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins the picture book adaptation of the renowned poem that encourages young readers to reflect on family, nature, and their heritage. 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Composed of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory—in both the private, individual journey and as a vehicle for prophetic, public witness.      Harjo insists that the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. 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