#two maps

[roomtemperatehumor]

Only ONE thing is better than a map in a book

[artistthingstosay]

Gift For Best Friend: Quote Map Art Friends Going Away Birthday Or Just Because Thinking Of You Two Hometown States College Colors Red Brown

[tumbleword-blog]

This time I would see... They were separate fields of meaning--rich and problematic and inviting of new perspectives. Above all, their co-existence, even as contradiction, was not only possible but desirable. If art--and indeed poetry--was shaped by the interplay of individual and communal, then there was a chance to look into the fire of those contradictions, as if into a moment of origin. ... We can and should draw two maps... can and should entertain even conflicted ideas to find a path through contradiction... without needing to erase one with the other. That we can take apparently opposed views of the history and practice of {this} art, and hold them reflectively in our hands as if they were two maps. And yet, in the end, come safely to a single destination.

Evan Boland excerpt A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet