“Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues”: all’origine del legame fra le voci poetiche di Sandra Cisneros e Joy Harjo

This essay explores the generative potential of intimate contact zones in the careers of Chicana poet Sandra Cisneros and Mvskoke poet Joy Harjo. It maps key locations in both poets’ creative itineraries from the time of their graduate training at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop through the present and considers how the relationships forged in many different locations shaped their imaginative lives and poetic personas. By writing about common places such as bars, city streets, hotel rooms, rented houses, and kitchen tables, Cisneros and Harjo invent poetic voices and literary forms in which intimate, cultural, and generational knowledges intermingle; read together, their published collections foreground the conditions in which women artists of color in the United States live and work.