"On Metaphors and Snow Boots"
"For me, the problem with assigning romantic metaphor to mental illness is not that it’s incorrect, exactly, but that it flattens a dynamic reality into something static....But the metaphor is everywhere; the world has already drafted and consigned it. When we use metaphor to conceal the unknowable, we make symbols out of human beings and allegory out of experience. We reduce our own pain to a precursor, a line item, a weather report."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Maricela Guerrero (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"And this is precisely where poetry and poetic communion shelter me with hope without optimism; where, in the different languages inhabited by beings with whom I share the air and water of this planet, we come together in longing for and choosing another way of interweaving, of searching inside ourselves for new ways to reverse this disaster." |
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