In this volume of interviews and collected writings, Joy Harjo acts as a guide, taking us on a journey into her identity as a woman and as an artist, poised between poetry and music, encompassing tribal heritage, productive reassessments, and comparisons with the American cultural patrimony. But even before presenting herself in an exquisitely literary context, she proudly underlines her Indian roots, and this allembracing assertion unceasingly leaves a profoundly coherent mark on form and content. Thus these interviews accompany the reader on a human and professional itinerary, where the reading of her poems is often an illuminating exegetic commentary, directly or more often perceptibly, but at the same time.
