Map of the Folded World Q&A

A poem from Map of the Folded World is featured today at Pages Rustle.


There’s a short essay on the poem and a Q & A. Here’s the first question:

Q: I’m very much always looking for a poem’s “significance,” and this is a poem that is in some ways resistant to a single way of understanding. As the poet, do you subscribe to McLeish’s idea that “a poem should Be/ not mean”?