Rothenberg, Jerome, and Javier Taboada, editors. The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present. University of California Press, 2024.

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Poems

1. That Da-Da Strain
2. Vision of the Children of Evil
3. Lady Be Good - Ella Fitzgerald

Symposium Essays

1. S.Ortiz (399)
2. Total Translation - Rothenberg (381)

Wiki Topics

1. A Map of Extensions or A Map of Misfits
2. A Homophonic Translation

All Pages in the Omnipoetics Project

1. Preludium - America Before America
2. First Gallery - from the Florentine Codex to Walt Whitman
3. Map of the Americas
4. Second Gallery - from Emily Dickinson to Vicente Huidobro
5. Map of Visions
6. Third Gallery - from Marina Sabina to Ernesto Cardenal
7. Map of Histories
8. Map of Extensions
9. Fourth Gallery from Allen Ginsberg to Raul Zurita

1. A Paradise of Poets (25-38)
2. Kiche (12-)
3. Origins of Human Language (16-)
4. Lament on the Fall of Tenochtitlan (38)
5. Astaroth Appears to Moctezuma (50-53)
6. To The Veritable Judge Belchior Da Cunna Brochado (67)
7. Discourse between Walt Whitman and Pedro Mir
8. Brazilwood Poetry Manifesto
9. A Map to the Next World (173-75)
10. Copenhagen (p.115)
11. Law of the Rights of Mother Earth (118-119) - Sherwood - Model?
12. A Paradise of Poets & Cantares Mexicanos
13. Li-Po José Juan Tablada (218)
14. To Roosevelt - 1904 (215)
15. Sale of Souls (195-198)
16. Ramadan (p.315)
17. Hellhound on My Trail - (p.292)
18. Return to Old Lombe (p. 306)
19. The Woman who went to the Village of the Dead (p.317)
20. Black Majesty (p. 360)
21. The Scandalous Life of César Moro (p. 385)
22. Excerpts from The Wishing-Bone Cycle (p. 347-351)
23. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (p. 374)
24. Riot (p. 441)
25. 32nd Light Poem (p. 456)
26. Jetman, Haylli (p.422)
27. Daily Space - Psychology of Composition (p. 451-2)
28. from "A" - 12 (pp. 512 - 514)
29. Winter Count (pp. 485 - 487)
30. They Came in Ships (pp. 495 - 496)
31. ZONG! (pp. 496 - 498)
32. Catallus, translated by Zukofsky

1. Artaud (235-240)
2. Aimé Césaire & René Depestre, "On Negritude" (52)
3. Diamond
4. Durkheim (16-18)
5. Gunn Allen (173-86)
6. Jung (206-216)
7. Levi-Strauss(57)
8. Lord (158-161)
9. Malinowski (107-111)
10. Munn (475-479)
11. Ortiz (270-272)
12. Radin (31-35)
13. Sabina (187-190)
14. Schechner (311-326)
15. Silva (116-118)
16. Tedlock (366-380)
17. Tzara (29-30)
18. Whorf (191-196)
19. Turner (pp. 337 - 342)
20. Quasha (pp. 461 - 474)

• Comparison between SaF "A Paradise of Poets" and other translations of the Cantares Mexicanos
• The Codex Chimalpopoca"
• Poetic Autoethnography

“Author” is here used loosely; entries might be created for a cultural group or oral peformance genre or tradition when a “named” author is not associated with the work.

1. Victor Hernandez Cruz
2. Cecilia Vicuna
3. Armand Schwerner

1. Omnipoetics
2. Total Translation
3. Oral performance
4. Magic Words
5. Shamanism
6. Calunga
7. Bird Song Poetics (52)
8. Nahuatl/Aztec Language - Gods and Symbols (35-36, 46-49, 25-28)
9. Nahuatl Authorship
10. Tractor Talk
11. A Homophonic Translation

1. Harlem Renaissance
2. Icelandic Saga
3. Blues Lyrics
4. Negritude

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