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Release Date Friday 24th April 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
As a poet and musician, Joy Harjo channels a creative force she describes as
a "vibration of love" to connect countless traditions and artforms, countering
the despair and heartache caused by power and hate
Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace, her debut for Smithsonian Folkways, draws on
the long-intertwined rhythms of jazz and poetry, the power of improvisation and selfexpression through sound, and the vitality of Native culture and spirituality to spark a
chain of vibrational energy to engulf the whole world. Harjo's voice is bold and direct,
supported producer and bass player esperanza spalding, covering a repertoire that
includes a jazz standard, a song written by Harjo's mother and uncovered by her sister,
and many originals that speak to contemporary issues and her life as one of the most
celebrated American poets of the last century.
* Joy Harjo has published eleven acclaimed books of poetry and served three terms
as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022.
* "Joy Harjo combines the wisdom that was here long before Europeans showed up
with the challenges of a woman's life in the present. The result is inspired by the past
and a personal preparation for the future." --Gloria Steinem
* "Since she published her debut collection, in 1975, she has produced eight books of
poetry, a memoir, and children's books; received just about every prominent poetry
award that the literary world can offer; and embraced the universal in her work without
being burdened by it. She has made each of her stories--even ones that predate her, or
dwarf her in scale--in some way part of her own story of survival." - The New Yorker
* "Joy Harjo is more than a poet, painter, and musician; she is a spiritual being aware
of the meaning of everything we see as well as the things around us that are usually
invisible." - NPR
Tracks: Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace / Rabbit Is Up to Tricks / I Pray for My
Enemies / Fear Redux / Without / Mahk Jchi / Instinct / My Guy / Perhaps the World
Ends Here / Stomp All Night / I Am a Prayer / In the Beautiful Perfume and Stink of the
World / Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
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