Earth Always Endures: Native American Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0788197940 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 93 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Award-Winning Book This book is a 1997 NCSS Notable
This eloquent anthology gives a vivid insight into the world of Native Americans. This anthology provides a selection of the best of those traditions.. used a poet s eye to take over 40,000 photos of Native Americans at the point when their cultures were thought to be disappearing. The poems come from the woodlands, plains, deserts, & pueblos. The 60 poems in this collection -- chants, prayers, & songs -- are accompanied by over 40 unforgettable duotone photos by Edward S. Today s new writing by Native Americans has revived interest in the song traditions that underlie their work. Curtis, who in the early 20th cent. They speak of love, of war, of the known & the unknowable
. Over 40 of Edward S. This is a fine and serious collection of a largely unrecorded poetic tradition. From Publishers Weekly Neil Philip brings together 60 chants, prayers and songs in Earth Always Endures: Native American Poems. Curtis's (1868-1952) elegant duotone photographs of Native Americans accompany the text.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Often haiku-like in their spareness, the quietly magnificent poems sing of war, love, the land and animals: they do not seem to have been chosen for children in particular