Joy Harjo — The Whole of Time
On Being with Krista Tippett
00:00
The Story Matrix of a Story Field
I watched this beautiful ceremony that was kind of your inauguraor not your inauguration, but your inaugural appearance as poet lauriate. And i always say, thank you to adolfh sax that i use my poetic license and write a poem where a rabbit invents the saxophone. Yes, yes. That goes before iis too long forlo o k,. When adolph saxs patented the first saxophone on june twenty third, eighteen forty six, the creek nation was in turmoil. The people had been moved west of the mississippi river after the creek wars, which culminated in the battle of horseshoe bend. We were putting our lives back together in new lands
Transcript
Play full episode
