Joy Harjo is an internationally celebrated poet of the Muscogee Nation, and it is with words that she processes this life - joy, hardships and, in a new book, grief. It's called "Washing My Mother ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...