Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North AmericasJerome Rothenberg 'This book represents a major effort to bring Amerindian poetry to the reader in such a way that the total poetry, the dance, the vowel changes, the pauses, the movement, the interaction between speaker and audience is made evident...' -John Demos, Library Journal |
Contents
what the informant said to Franz Boas in 1920 Keresan | 3 |
THE ARTIST Aztec | 12 |
A FIRST SERVICE | 43 |
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