Archaeomythology

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The title </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Archaeomythology </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>(which is also the title of the last poem in the collection) reflects a kind of digging. Not in the traditional sense of course but psychic digging where the process of writing works like a metaphorical spade or shovel. The opening epigraph the places I inhabit and that inhabit me (taken from an interview with the late Barry Lopez) foretells delving into places that have mattered most: home garden nearby wild nature childhood landscapes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The poems are not ordered in an obvious way-by time period or type of place for example-because they coexist and evolve together in memories daydreams and reflections. In one sense the poems become personal mythologies revealing themselves as they are written. In another however they offer a larger collective mythology an invitation to explore how physical places past and present domestic and wild come to inhabit us shaping us as we shape them.</span></p><p></p>