The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- 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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