The Storyteller’s Escape (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
The Poem
Leslie Marmon Silko’s “The Storyteller’s Escape” is one of the story-poems included in Storyteller, Silko’s somewhat autobiographical compilation of stories, photographs, and poems. The work is set in the southwestern United States, specifically in the Laguna area near Albuquerque, New Mexico. In “The Storyteller’s Escape,” the storyteller is a Native American woman who explains why stories are important. Her statements are alternated with third-person comments and bare descriptions of episodes in the storyteller’s life. The free-form stanzas...
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