Cloud Runner: Poems

The three-term US Poet Laureate returns with a moving collection about grief, loss, and the ways that art can transform suffering.

The death of 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.” Despite this devastation, 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...