In the aftermath of Technicians of the Sacred (1968) the next step Jerome Rothenberg took toward the construction of an experimental ethnopoetics was an assemblage of traditional works and commentaries thereon focused entirely on one of the world's still surviving and incredibly diverse deep cultures. The resultant work, Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas , is the Mount Rushmore not only of literary archeology but also for understanding the forms, conditions and promise of being American ...
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In the aftermath of Technicians of the Sacred (1968) the next step Jerome Rothenberg took toward the construction of an experimental ethnopoetics was an assemblage of traditional works and commentaries thereon focused entirely on one of the world's still surviving and incredibly diverse deep cultures. The resultant work, Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas , is the Mount Rushmore not only of literary archeology but also for understanding the forms, conditions and promise of being American, which Walt Whitman, among others, holds is being a poet.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Several dogeared pages. Text and images unmarked. Text and images unmarked.
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Good. Book Octavo, softcover, good in light green pictorial wraps. Name on endpaper. Text is unmarked; 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. 342 pp.
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Near Fine. Poetry A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 424 pages. Includes work by Leonard Neufeld; Alonzo Gonzales Mo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Andrew Peynetsa, Lance Henson, Samuel Makidemewabe, Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa), Jacob Nibenegenesabe, Nakasuk, and more. First Printing.
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Very Good+ Very Good+ Trade Paperback. First Revised Edition 8vo. A great Poet himself who shakes the rattle of verbal sound from the colors of the corn and the beans. Here is collected "Real People" poetry social, personal, and sacred form gathered native nations across North America. Text, notes, illus. NOT a library copy. A little shelf wear only. Clean 421 pp. Good photo on cover of a Rim Dweller or incorrectly called "False Face" walking in a corn field! See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of Cover, Edition and partial of Table of contents.