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Cloud Runner: Poems
Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with...
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Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: "Reason has no home in this hour," she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: "I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, / Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick up our burdens / And go on."
Harjo's magical poems are known for weaving myth, song, and spirit. In this searing volume, her poems become essential witnesses to history, especially in our current era of compounded loss: mass shootings, missing and murdered Native women, climate disaster, and political violence. Cloud Runner explores how all grief may be connected; it is a testament to poetry's power to speak what is unspeakable, to touch what the mind cannot carry.
From Cloud Runner:
"I am Cloud Runner, you whispered, as I rinsed dishes and looked
out the window, the sun flaring dusky gold through our story. I
dried my hands and went outside to read the clouds.
Remember me in my children and their children, you sang.
Remember me in poetry.
Remember me when it rains, when the plants rise up in
green to drink.
Remember me in butterflies.
And then, you were gone."
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781324123651
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2026 pg. 120
About the Author
Harjo, Joy: - Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
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