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Shaking the Pumpkin : traditional poetry of the Indian North Americas / Jerome Rothenberg
- Author
- Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-2024
- Published
- Barrytown, N.Y. : Station Hill, 2014.
- Edition
- Third edition.
- Physical Description
- 423 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Preludes -- what the informant said to Franz Boas in 1920 (Keresan) -- Thank You: A Poem in Seventeen Parts (Seneca) -- The Artist (Aztec) -- Torlino: Therefore I Must Tell the Truth (Navajo) -- Song of the Bald Eagle (Crow) -- Shaking The Pumpkin (Seneca) -- A First Service -- Magic Words & More More More Magic Words (Eskimo) -- Magic Words -- Magic Words to Feel Better -- Magic Words for Hunting Caribou -- Magic Words for Hunting Seal -- moon eclipse exorcism (Alsea) -- poem to ease birth (Aztec) -- Crow Versions -- Maria Sabina: From The Chants (Mazatec) -- Archaic Song of Dr. Tom the Shaman (Nootka) -- Magic Words from Run Toward the Nightland (Cherokee) -- A'Yunini: The Killer (Cherokee) -- Alonzo Gonzales Mo: Wizards (Yucatec Maya) -- A Song from Red Ant Way (Navajo) -- The Deadly Dance (Aztec) -- A Book Of Narratives -- A Myth of the Human Universe (Maya) -- From The Popol Vuh: Beginnings (Maya) -- From The Popol Vuh: Alligator's Struggles with the 400 Sons (Maya) -- The Origin of the Skagit Indians According to Lucy Williams -- The Creation of the World According to Charles Slater (Cuna) -- Leslie Marmon Silko: The Invention of White People (Laguna Pueblo) -- Coon cons Coyote, Coyote eats Coon, Coyote fights Shit-Men, gets immured in a rock-house, eats his eyes, eats his balls, gets out, cons Bird-Boy for eyes, loses them to the birds & gets them back (Nez Perce) -- Simon Ortiz: Telling About Coyote (Acoma Pueblo) -- Andrew Peynetsa: The Boy & the Deer (Zuni) -- A Second Service -- Wolf Songs & Others of the Tlingit -- Eskimo Songs About People & Animals -- spring fjord -- the old man's song, about his wife -- dream -- a man's song about his daughter -- a woman's song about men -- Kiowa "49" Songs -- Two Divorce Songs (Tsimshian) -- Tsimshian mourning song -- insult before gift-giving (Tsimshian) -- Spyglass Conversations (Tule/Cuna) -- Lance Henson: Two Cheyenne Poems -- Alonzo Gonzales Mo: Conversations in Mayan (Maya) -- Conversations in Mayan -- How Just One Poor Man Lives -- Things That Happen to You -- Navajo Animal Songs -- Samuel Makidemewabe: Three Cree Namings (Swampy Cree) -- Born Tying Knots -- Tree Old Woman -- Saw the Cloud Lynx -- Orpingalik's Song: In a Time of Sickness (Eskimo) -- A Book Of Events (I) -- Dream Event I (Iroquois) -- Dream Event II (Iroquois) -- A Masked Event for Comedian & Audience (Lummi) -- Butterfly Song Event (Maricopa) -- Autumn Events (Eskimo) -- Tamale Event (Aztec) -- Mud Events (Navajo) -- Dakota Dance Events -- Gift Event (Kwakiutl) -- Language Event I (Eskimo) -- Language Event II (Navajo) -- Picture Event, for Doctor & Patient (Navajo) -- Naming Events (Papago) -- Pebble Event (Omaha) -- Crazy Dog Events (Crow) -- Animal Spirit Event (Lummi) -- Vision Event I (Eskimo) -- Vision Event II (Eskimo) -- Vision Event III (Sioux) -- A Book Of Events (II): Theater & Ritual-Theater -- Hehaka Sapa [Black Elk]: The Horse Dance (Oglala Sioux) -- Sixty-six Poems for a Blackfoot Bundle -- A Dispute Between Women (Eskimo) -- Rabinal-Achi: Act IV (Maya) -- A Third Service -- the little random creatures (Fox) -- Five Flower World Variations (Yaqui) -- the eagle above us (Cora) -- A Song of the Red & Green Buffalo (Oto) -- Jacob Nibenegenesabe: From The Wishing Bone Cycle (Swampy Cree) -- Nakasuk: The Great Farter (Eskimo) -- One for Coyote (Skagit) -- How Her Teeth Were Pulled (Paiute) -- Three Songs of Mad Coyote (Nez Perce) -- Santiago Mendes Zapata: A Story of the Eaters (Tzeltal) -- N. Scott Momaday Things That Were Truly Remarkable (Kiowa) -- Sweat-House Ritual No. 1 (Omaha) -- A Poem to the Mother of the Gods (Aztec) -- Lucario Cuevish: Before They Made Things Be Alive They Spoke (Luiseno) -- Sioux Metamorphoses -- A Book Of Extensions (I) -- The Tablet of the 96 Hieroglyphs (Maya) -- From a Book of the Maya (Maya) -- The Calendars (Ojibwa) -- Lean Wolfs Complaint (Hidatsa) -- Zuni Derivations -- Navajo Correspondences -- Muu's Way or Pictures from the Uterine World (Cuna) -- Enoch Hoag: A Moon Peyote Altar (Caddo) -- The Picture with the Water Fringe Mouths (Navajo) -- The Story of Glooscap, or Black Cat (Passamaquoddy) -- Ojibwa Love Poem -- String Games (Bella Bella) -- Poems for the Game of Silence (Chippewa, Mandan) -- Songs & Song Pictures (Chippewa) -- A Book Of Extensions (II): Soundings -- Sound-Poem No. 1 (Navajo) -- Richard Johnny John: Sound-Poem No. 2 (Seneca) -- A Poem from the Sweatbath Poems (Fox) -- From Ceremony of Sending: A Simultaneity for Twenty Choruses (Osage) -- Tepehua Thought-Songs -- Tahirussawichi: From The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony -- The 12th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (Navajo) -- The 13th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (Navajo) -- A Fourth Service -- The Net of Moon: A Pawnee Hand Game Vision -- Essie Parrish in New York (Kashia Porno) -- For the God of Peyote (Huichol) -- First Peyote Song -- Second Peyote Song -- Song of an Initiate -- Third Peyote Song -- How the Violin Was Born: A Peyote Account -- The Flowering War (Aztec) -- A Song of Chalco -- A Song in Praise of the Chiefs -- A Song for the Eagles & Jaguars -- The Eagle & the Jaguar -- what happened to a young man in a place where he turned to water (White Mountain Apache) -- poem to be recited every 8 years while eating unleavened tamales (Aztec) -- Nalungiaq: Heaven and Hell (Eskimo) -- From The Book of Chilam Balam: A Chapter of Questions & Answers (Maya) -- her elegy (Papago) -- They Went to the Moon Mother (Zuni) -- Ray Young Bear: four poems (Mesquaki) -- dance of the rain gods (Cora) -- Postludes -- A Kalapuya Prophecy -- The Removal (Seminole) -- Samik: Hunger (Eskimo) -- Philip Kahclamet: The Crier (Wishram Chinook) -- Three Ghost Dance Songs -- Commentaries -- A Breakdown by Region & Tribe -- The Commentaries.
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- ISBN
- 9781581771305
1581771304
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