yogat3ch@bookwyrm.social reviewed Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
A budding creative native woman's life woven in dreams and trying circumstances
5 stars
Crazy Brave is an inspiring and heart-rending journey through Harjo's early childhood and formative years, finding music, theater and poetry as means of expressing her creativity. Her visionary dreams soar through the poetry she wrote throughout the years. She shares painful experiential accounts of the entanglements with deeply troubled men during her formative years with compassion and perspective. Her sage like wisdom and connection with the spirit world are woven like a silver thread through the stories of her life and her people.