Jan 7, 2009

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

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Author: Joy Foster
First Published: 1995
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry, Prose poem
Subjects: Children, Memory, Mythology or myths, Schools or school life, Native Americans or American Indians, Women, Wolves, Butterflies

Readers of contemporary poetry often have to struggle with how to categorize a work because of the absence of obvious external markers. For example, most people, if asked, would say that one of the key differences between “poetry” and “fiction” is that poetry is written in lines while fiction is written in paragraph form. Yet what of so-called prose poems or narrative poems written in prose format? When does a poem stop being a poem and become fiction? Joy Harjo’s The Woman Who Fell from the Sky may well be puzzling and perhaps even irritating to those who expect a...

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

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