Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Songs and Poems

by Brian Swann and Paula Gunn Allen

From Library Journal
Based on the work of anthropologist collectors, this compendium of more than 100 Native American chants and songs revises and updates a prior edition out of print since 1989. "These poems are not translations," argues Swann. They're versions that have gone through "a series of mediations and filters and exist somewhere between the individual lyric voice" and a diverse, multileveled Native American imaginative-mystical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238728
• ISBN13: 9780870238727
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"