Responding to joy Harjo
Although Joy Harjo wasn't able to come read at Pasadena City College, I found her poetry and her memoir very inspirational. What I loved was her connection with ancestry and her real and present connection to the present. Prof. Ramey talked a lot about Diaspora poets and indigenous poets living the past and the present sometimes simultaneously. She says "She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams. With this little handstitched book, I tried to channel this idea of past and present and how memory and history collide.
Although Joy Harjo wasn't able to come read at Pasadena City College, I found her poetry and her memoir very inspirational. What I loved was her connection with ancestry and her real and present connection to the present. Prof. Ramey talked a lot about Diaspora poets and indigenous poets living the past and the present sometimes simultaneously. She says "She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams. With this little handstitched book, I tried to channel this idea of past and present and how memory and history collide.
