A reading of primitive and archaic poetry : origins and meanings, death and defeat.

Author/creator Rothenberg, Jerome
Other author Antin, David.
Other author Mac Low, Jackson.
Other author Owens, Rochelle.
Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication InfoNew York : Broadside Records : Folkways Records, 1968.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?GLMU;72711
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Variant title Origins and meanings, death and defeat
Contents Creation accounts: Uitoto Indian myth ; From the Chhandogya upanishad ; From the book of Enoch ; A Maori poem on the creation of light -- Definitions: Eskimo poem for the sun ; Series of Aztec definitions -- Descriptions: Gabon pygmy ; Eskimo ; Australian -- Elephant hunter, take your bow (Gabon pygmy) -- The war god's horse song (Navajo) -- He is firm and strong (Yoruba, Nigeria) -- To the god of fire as a horse (Rigveda) -- The stars (Algonquin Indian) -- The flight of Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) -- When hare heard of death (Winnebago) -- Poem from the middle kingdom (Egypt) -- Ayacucho dance song (Peru) -- She has gone from us ; The blowfly (Australia) -- Lamentation (Fox Indian) -- Death song (Papago) -- Three songs (Chippewa) -- For Tlacahuepan (Aztec) -- Song of the butterfly (Chippewa) -- Some attributes of the book of changes -- Lament (Gabon pygmy).
General note"Arranged by Jerome Rothenberg, with David Antin, Jackson Maclow, and Rochelle Owens" -- accompanying notes.
General noteNotes on the sources, and text of the poems inserted in original container.

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