[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Story of the Saxophone
Lauriate: I don't thik there are actually a few poets who play saxiphone, but no, i think that i'm the first one. When when you tell this story, this is in an american sunrise, when adolph saxs patented the first saxophone on mton twenty third. And i always say, thank you to adolf sax that i use my poetic license and write a poem where a rabbid invents the saxophone. That goes before it t its too long for radio. It's ten cy is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time. But then we
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