ALCHERINGA Ethnopoetics

Volume One Number One Autumn 1970

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• Statement of Intention 1
• Preliminaries 2
• Ezra Pound - On Arriving & Not Arriving (Hausa: The Lioness Warns Her Cubs; Teleut: Praise Song of the Buck-Hare) 5
• From Shaking the Pumpkin (Rothenberg)(Seneca) 8
• Munro S. Edmonson-Notes on a New Translation of the Popol Vuh 14
• The Trials & Death of One & Seven Hunter (Quiche Maya) 16 -
• The Message of King Sakis & the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night (Serbo-Croatian) 24
• Praises of the Bantu Kings 26
• Crow Versions 29
• The Deadly Dance (Aztec) 32 - (David M Gonsalves)
• Some Eskimo Songs about People & Animals 34
• Pidgin Songs (New Guinea) 37
• Northern Paiute Narratives 38
• The Riddles (Serbo-Croatian) 39
• Stories from the Ifa Oracle (Yoruba) 40
• Two Prophecies (Flathead & Kalapuya) 46
• Song of the Talking God A Navajo Transposition 47
• Three from Quechua 50 (Laura in progress)
• From Ceremony of Sending - A Simultaneity for Twenty Choruses (Osage) 52
• Two Incantations (New Guinea & Solomon Islands) 57
• Fragments from the Prayers Made on Behalf of Nathaniel Tarn, etc. (Zutuhil Maya) 58
• Jerome Rothenberg - A Note to Accompany The First Horse-Song of Frank Mitchell 63
• The First Horse-Song of Frank Mitchell (Navajo) 64
• Dennis Tedlock - Notes to Finding the Middle of the Earth 66
• Finding the Middle of the Earth (Peynetsa) (Zuni) 67

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