werecat:poetsandwriters:Joy Harjo in the September/October 2021 issue of Poets & Writers Mag
werecat:poetsandwriters:Joy Harjo in the September/October 2021 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. [image text:A poem is a kind of map and/or mapping. There’s the literal aspect, as in oral cultures in which song-poems might embody star maps or escape maps. A map shows you a location, shows you where you are and possible destinations. Lines are roads. Images are destinations. Water and earth are concrete. Fire and air are insight and idea. Then we wind up someplace familiar, but we’d never heard it this way before.] -- source link