![]() Part of this book is about acknowledging fear, working around it, using it, but not being controlled by it. I am reminded of the time I went underwater in the Colorado River, the immense crushing noise turned warm and quiet and then I emerged. Part of this is about surrendering to the flow of the river, instead of fighting against it, using the strength of the current to pursue yourself, but also acknowledge or accept that the river will be violent, and it will wound you deeply, and it might kill you, and it might lull you to sleep, and part of this we can control, and part of it we cannot control, and this is the wisdom we gain from being in the river. Now I think I can say that the larger message was, for me personally, a message to women to be brave, an admonition that it will be crazy, and you will be crazy, and you will be brave, and that is life. I was captured throughout the entire book, but by the end, I was a little lost: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?! I wondered about the title: crazy brave. And yet I only really found her work now, when of course I needed it most. A woman is appearing in the horizon light.” ~ Meridel Le Sueur.Īnd then I saw her picture and remembered that maybe I met her. This is from the back cover of She Had Some Horses, but I think it pertains to all Harjo’s work: “If you want to remember what you never listened to & what you didn’t know you knew, or wanted to know, open this sound & forget to fear. It does so in poetic prose–she’s a poet after all. ![]() It captures pain, and specifically women’s pain, in a profound way. ![]() It’s a collection I see myself returning to.Īs for Crazy Brave, what I love about the book is how she captures a creative, feminine life experience that I (mostly) really relate to. After reading and loving Crazy Brave, I read She Had Some Horses, which is also beautiful, and I love it, and it’s poetry. I don’t enjoy reading a lot of poetry, and so that’s why I haven’t been very familiar with her work. ![]()
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