"I take an abiding pleasure in knowing that Joy Harjo is the poet laureate of the United States. After all, Harjo—a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the first Native American to be so honored—speaks for an America I recognize: one cognizant of its fraught and difficult history but aspiring toward the possibility of a common, or at least shared, set of identities." David L. Ulin for ALTA
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