Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age
book by Joy Harjo
This page gathers my ongoing engagement with this book. reading notes, marginalia, and reflections written across different moments of return. What’s collected here focuses less on summary and more on what lingered after reading.
Poem that opens the book: For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
small books, strong feelings
Quick Lit: Short and Sweet Reviews — January 2026
A grumpy bookseller novel, Lydia Millet’s razor-sharp short stories, Joy Harjo as the wise auntie we all need, and a strange new Roxane Gay–imprint release about grief, obsession, and the soul of a dog.