Words Were Like Magic
Rebuilding Roxaboxen
Tile mosaic panel detail, Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In the 1990s, the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority began putting poems up in the ad spaces of subway cars as part of the civic arts program Poetry in Motion. One of the first ones I remember seeing was an Inuit creation myth, translated by Edward Field:
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