A Ritual Of Remembrance: Joy Harjo On The Aftermath Of Her Mother’s Death

The pursuing is from Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Dana Tiger.

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Reprinted pinch support from Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo. Art by Dana Tiger. Introduction copyright © 2025 by Joy Harjo-Sapulpa. Art and artist’s connection copyright © 2025 by Dana Tiger. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a section of Penguin Random House, LLC.

“Washing My Mother’s Body” from An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo. Copyright © 2019 by Joy Harjo. Used by support of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.