"This book transmits not only a full and rich experience with one of the most extraordinary personalities and poetic voices of our time, but also a great lesson in our understanding of the relations between religious inspiration and its artistic expression. It enriches our perceptions of the nature and possibilities of oral composition, complementing what we already know of it from the study of the Homeric and other poems in its great tradition."--George Economou
"Maria Sabina is one of the great figures of American shamanism. Her "Chants "is a masterpiece of indigenous visionary poetry. Her "Life "is the account of a woman who transcended her own culture and its material poverty to become one of the great women of the twentieth century. The veneration of her work continues beyond her death. To read her is to embark on a journey to the world of the extrasensorial."--Homero Aridjis
"In the chants of Maria Sabina, we can appreciate the interplay of individual invention and traditional liturgy within the oral creativity of a non-literate society. The recordings of her words that have saved them from oblivion give us the opportunity to glimpse the emergence of a genius from the soil of the communal, religious folk poetry of a nativeMexican campesino people."--Henry Munn
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"This book transmits not only a full and rich experience with one of the most extraordinary personalities and poetic voices of our time, but also a great lesson in our understanding of the relations between religious inspiration and its artistic expression. It enriches our perceptions of the nature and possibilities of oral composition, complementing what we already know of it from the study of the Homeric and other poems in its great tradition."--George Economou
"Maria Sabina is one of the great figures of American shamanism. Her "Chants "is a masterpiece of indigenous visionary poetry. Her "Life "is the account of a woman who transcended her own culture and its material poverty to become one of the great women of the twentieth century. The veneration of her work continues beyond her death. To read her is to embark on a journey to the world of the extrasensorial."--Homero Aridjis
"In the chants of Maria Sabina, we can appreciate the interplay of individual invention and traditional liturgy within the oral creativity of a non-literate society. The recordings of her words that have saved them from oblivion give us the opportunity to glimpse the emergence of a genius from the soil of the communal, religious folk poetry of a nativeMexican campesino people."--Henry Munn
Imprint | University of California Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Poets for the Millennium, 2 |
Release date | October 2003 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | September 2003 |
Authors | Maria Sabina |
Editors | Jerome Rothenberg |
Contributors | Alvaro Estrada |
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 225 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-23953-1 |
Barcode | 9780520239531 |
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LSN | 0-520-23953-9 |