Eagle Poem

Reproduced by kind permission of the BBC, from a BBC 'Poetry Please' broadcast, 28th February 1993 - from Mad Love and War, copyright 1990 by Joy Harjo, published by Weslyan University Press.

Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She was the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native ...

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