Technicians of the Sacred


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"Technicians of the Sacred presents 'primitive' and ancient poetries as the incantations they are, loaded with power and very full of the magic that invests all good poetry. The treatment is fascinating...the commentaries are a gold mine of responses to the material by a strong poet (the editor), and his selection of analogous writings from a broad range of contemporary poets."—David P. McAllester




Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition


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"A wide-ranging anthology of ethnopoetry including origin texts, visionary texts, texts about death, texts about events--collected from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Ancient Near East, and Oceania."--Provided by publiher.




Technicians of the Sacred


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Shaking the Pumpkin


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'This book represents a major effort to bring Amerindian poetry to the reader in such a way that the total poetry, the dance, the vowel changes, the pauses, the movement, the interaction between speaker and audience is made evident...' -John Demos, Library Journal




Eye of Witness


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A wide ranging survey of internationally celebrated and acclaimed poet, translator, and editor Jerome Rothenberg. Surveying the entirety of his 50 plus years of writing and covering his 80 plus published books, this volume provides a further insight into the mind and breadth of writing of Rothenberg to date. Further critical commentaries are provided by both the author and Heriberto Yepez.




Symposium of the Whole


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EDWARD L. SCHIEFFELIN: From The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers




Triptych


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The key book by the internationally celebrated poet with the only Polish ghetto-hassidic-cowboy and Indian American comic voice (Robert Duncan) in history.




Ghost Tantras


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Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths: McClure describes these tantras as “ceremonies to change the nature of reality."




The Noble Traveller


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This book is a fundamental introduction to a great literary and philosophical figure.




Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four


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"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.