Given the media circles I inhabit as a poet and a translator, I probably hear some version of the assertion—"We need new myths"—on a seasonal basis. As if myths could potentially be retired, or reanimated, or untethered from the collective subconscious of the various cultures from which they've sprung, and we'd be free to re-imagine a world shaped by different stories. I see the appeal. Yet, revisiting those old stories is a necessary first step in that very process. Let me explain.
Revisiting Myth: Of Mirrors, Shields, and Zombies
Revisiting Myth: Of Mirrors, Shields, and…
Revisiting Myth: Of Mirrors, Shields, and Zombies
Given the media circles I inhabit as a poet and a translator, I probably hear some version of the assertion—"We need new myths"—on a seasonal basis. As if myths could potentially be retired, or reanimated, or untethered from the collective subconscious of the various cultures from which they've sprung, and we'd be free to re-imagine a world shaped by different stories. I see the appeal. Yet, revisiting those old stories is a necessary first step in that very process. Let me explain.