A Study Guide for Joy Harjo's "Remember"
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Remember
Joy Harjo
1983
Introduction
Joy Harjo belongs to the second generation of the Native American Renaissance, a literary movement arising in the 1960s that includes distinguished writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, and Simon Ortiz. Of Muskogee-Creek heritage as well as Cherokee, Irish, and French, Harjo is familiar with both Native American and white cultures. Raised in U.S. cities, with university degrees and an academic career, Harjo has nevertheless been nurtured primarily by her Muskogee tradition, which she fully embraces. She combines her knowledge of the visual arts, music, and language to depict the Native American perception of life as relevant to the present time. Her experimental poems fold the landscape of city nightlife, poverty, violence, and the bloody history of her people into the larger mythic presence of the natural landscape with its cycles, beauty, and forgiveness. She speaks of the spiritual journey to wholeness that everyone, not only Native Americans, must make.
Memory is a key theme in her work and is the main theme of the poem Remember,
from her third collection of poems, She Had Some Horses (1983). For Harjo, memory is a dynamic and passionate process that brings together past, present, and future. It links all life together, and all peoples. To lose the memory of the way individuals are connected is to lose one's humanity.
As a poet, Harjo is noted for her direct, deep emotion and lack of irony. She does not describe as much as she evokes, with words and images that derive from a sense of ceremony. A poet of attachment to place, her work is grounded in the American Southwest where she was born, yet Harjo is a traveler as well. Her poems view the mythic overlay of cities like Washington, D.C.; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and New Orleans, Louisiana; with the same magical perception she has of nature. Besides her own prolific artistic output in stories, poems, music, and film writing, Harjo has contributed much work to promoting native cultures through her organizational work, editing, and anthologizing of other Native women writers. A copy of the poem Remember
can be found in Harjo's collection of her poems How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001, published by W. W. Norton in 2002.
Author Biography
Harjo was born Joy Foster on May 9, 1951, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Allen and Wynema Foster. Her father was a full-blooded Muskogee (Creek), a construction worker who died of asbestos-related lung disease. Her mother was Cherokee, French, and Irish, and served and cooked in truck stops. In 1970, Harjo took the surname of her Muskogee grandmother, Naomi Harjo, and became enrolled as a member of