Sunday, May 1, 2016

Patty L. Harjo

I like the few poems Voices of the Rainbow selected from Patty, probably because they're short and aren't typed all over the place. She wrote one called Death, which, to me, describes someone dying in a room as Death watches them. The poem didn't require a lot of insight and seemed to be strait forward. Patty's poems all seemed pretty forward and went on to describe her titles in a short concise manner.

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  1. Was Patty Harjo a relative of Joy Harjo? I handwrote a poem in my sketchbook in the 1980s that was attributed to Patty. "Musings": Walk proud, walk straight, let your thoughts race / With the blue wind...

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