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-====== Storyteller & Translator: Jacob Nibenegenesabe & Howard Norman ======+<WRAP center round info 60%> 
 +//The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 347-350) \\ 
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 +====== The Wishing-Bone Cycle Excerpts ====== 
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 +Translated By: Jacob Nibenegenesabe per Howard Norman 
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 +===== Storyteller & Translator: Jacob Nibenegenesabe & Howard Norman ===== 
 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman|Howard Norman]] is an American writer who has produced several translations. //The Wishing-Bone Cycle// was his first publication, which he received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for. Norman says he gathered the poems within //The Wishing-Bone Cycle// through [[https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366|storytelling sessions]] with two Cree storytellers, including Jacob Nibenegenesabe. This fact points to the reasoning as to why Norman is credited in the title of the poems, since he was involved directly in the storytelling process.  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman|Howard Norman]] is an American writer who has produced several translations. //The Wishing-Bone Cycle// was his first publication, which he received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for. Norman says he gathered the poems within //The Wishing-Bone Cycle// through [[https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366|storytelling sessions]] with two Cree storytellers, including Jacob Nibenegenesabe. This fact points to the reasoning as to why Norman is credited in the title of the poems, since he was involved directly in the storytelling process. 
  
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 This excerpt from "The Wishing Bone Cycle" is formatted as a sequence poem, where three separate sections are set apart and numbered, likely to indicate the progression of time between the stories. Each numbered section appears as one long, single stanza. This structural choice adds to the sense of storytelling, as the reader must "listen" with rapt attention to the uninterrupted storyteller, who neither hesitates nor stops to take a breath until each story is concluded. This excerpt from "The Wishing Bone Cycle" is formatted as a sequence poem, where three separate sections are set apart and numbered, likely to indicate the progression of time between the stories. Each numbered section appears as one long, single stanza. This structural choice adds to the sense of storytelling, as the reader must "listen" with rapt attention to the uninterrupted storyteller, who neither hesitates nor stops to take a breath until each story is concluded.
  
-====== Addendum ======+===== Addendum =====
  
 It is significant to recognize the editors' choice to include an addendum to this poetry selection. In this case, the addendum is "El poema de lo reverso" by Puerto Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz. There are striking parallels between the two poems, including structure. "El poema de lo reverso" is also not broken into stanzas, but written as one continuous entity.  It is significant to recognize the editors' choice to include an addendum to this poetry selection. In this case, the addendum is "El poema de lo reverso" by Puerto Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz. There are striking parallels between the two poems, including structure. "El poema de lo reverso" is also not broken into stanzas, but written as one continuous entity. 
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 Thematically, the poem also centers a progression in time, although of a broader scope. The anthology includes a quotation from Jacob Nibenegenesabe, the Canadian teller of trickster narratives, credited with "The Wishing Bone Cycle." Nibenegenesabe says, "I go backward, look forward, as the porcupine does." This sentiment reflects the opening lines of "El poema de lo reverso," which read, "In which everything goes backwards/ in time and motion." In both poems, there is a longing for reversal of narrative. At the end of the excerpt from "The Wishing Bone Cycle," the speaker reflects regretfully, "I should have wished them all away/ first thing." Similarly, the premise of "El poema de lo reverso" is the wishing away of destructive colonialization through a literal reversal of time.  Thematically, the poem also centers a progression in time, although of a broader scope. The anthology includes a quotation from Jacob Nibenegenesabe, the Canadian teller of trickster narratives, credited with "The Wishing Bone Cycle." Nibenegenesabe says, "I go backward, look forward, as the porcupine does." This sentiment reflects the opening lines of "El poema de lo reverso," which read, "In which everything goes backwards/ in time and motion." In both poems, there is a longing for reversal of narrative. At the end of the excerpt from "The Wishing Bone Cycle," the speaker reflects regretfully, "I should have wished them all away/ first thing." Similarly, the premise of "El poema de lo reverso" is the wishing away of destructive colonialization through a literal reversal of time. 
  
-====== References ====== +===== Works Cited ===== 
-“Howard Norman.” Wikipedia, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman]]. + 
 +“Howard Norman.” //Wikipedia//, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Norman]].  
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 +Nibenegenesabe, Jacob and Howard Norman. "The Wishing-Bone Cycle [Excerpt]." //The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present//, edited by Jerome Rothernberg and Javier Taboada. University of California Press, 2024, pp. 347-350. 
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 +Robinson, Amanda. “Trickster | the Canadian Encyclopedia.” , //Canadian Encyclopedia//, 5 Apr. 2018, [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster|https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster]]. 
  
-Robinson, Amanda. “Trickster | the Canadian Encyclopedia.” , 5 Apr. 2018, [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster|https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trickster]]. +Rothenberg, Jerome and Javier Taboada, Editors. //The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present//. University of California Press, 2024
  
-“The Wishing Bone Cycle |.” Perilous Adventures, 5 Nov. 2016, [[https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366|https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366]]. +“The Wishing Bone Cycle |.” //Perilous Adventures//, 5 Nov. 2016, [[https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366|https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2366]]. 
  
-“Wisakedjak.” Wikipedia, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak]].+“Wisakedjak.” //Wikipedia//, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak]].
  
-{{tag>Myth Translation }}+{{tag>Cree Canada Oral_Tradition Myth Trickster Translation }}
  

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