"[Joy] Harjo interrogates both one's responsibility toward one's culture and the fear of being buried under its weight. … This 'trade language,' as she later calls English, is weak, insufficient. It's the language of the American story, and it comes freighted with all of that story's history, atrocity, and false hope. How, she asks, can […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM on August 30, 2019