Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon

by Anita Endrezze

Book Overview

Perhaps you know them for their deer dances or for their rich Easter ceremonies, or perhaps only from the writings of anthropologists or of Carlos Castaneda. But now you can come to know the Yaqui... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816519722
• ISBN13: 9780816519729
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful mix of poetry and prose

(From Planeta.com Journal) - Endrezze weaves prose and poetry in an ecclectic tome that blurs the stories of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Coyote Woman. The author tells the story of her family -- a Yaqui father and a European mother and through Aztec and Yaqui creation stories, she weaves stories of her own family history. She writes: "The faces of my ancestors are both luminous and shadowy. I'm standing in a long line, holding the memory of their hands." Highly recommended.