ALCHERINGA Ethnopoetics Number Four (Vol. 1, No. 4) Autumn 1972

Entries Vol. 1, No. 4 1972 External Link [MP3: 1 2 ]

• Photo of Anyara Dyeme (Senegal singer), David Sapir front cover
• From "Easter Sunrise Sermon", w. T. Goodwin (total transcription by Peter Gold) 1
• Telling about Coyote, Simon Ortiz 15
• Benediction to the Spirit of the Fire (Khakasy/Siberia), Barbara Einzig 21
• Ojibwa Picture Songs, Howard A. Norman 28
• Four from Hawaiian, Armand Schwerner 31
• Five Namings & The Villages (Solomon Islands), Elli Kongas Maranda 35
• Maya Definitions, Alonso Gonzale.s M6/ Allan F.Burns (tr. ) 37
• From "Talking at Pomona", David Antin 42
• Chance, Silence & Language / Some Performance Pieces, Jackson Mac Low 45
• A Prayer Over Dead Rabbits (tr. by Dennis Tedlock & Joseph Peynetsa), Walter Sanchez (Zuni) 60
• The Birth of the War God (Aztec), Jerome Rothenberg 62
• Three Shaker Poems 68
• 4 Useful Poems that Travelled Across the Atlantic (Finnish), Anselm Hollo 70
• Job and the Trickster, Stanley Diamond 74
• A Cure for Aphasia (Hittite), Harris Lenowitz 83
• A Mini-Anthology of South Pacific Oral Poetry, Ulli Beier (ed.) 87

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• The Rainmaker & the Milpero (tr. from oral Maya by Allan F. Burns), Alonso Gonzales M6 97
• From Anthropologist to Informant / Interview with Gary Snyder, Nathaniel Tarn 104
• Tribal Poetry & Tribal Lifeways (review), Rarihokwats 114
• From "The Society of the Mystic Animals" (Seneca), Ian Tyson 118
• Notes & Comments 120
• "Therefore I Must Tell the Truth" (Navajo), Torlino inside back cover
• Southwest rock art, Rini Templeton back cover

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