Tribal Poetics of Native America

• Main Author: Lincoln, Kenneth R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1976
• Subjects: oral culture; language; Mayan; Rasmussen; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54c5w8b5

An Eskimo poet told Knud Rasmussen, "Songs (poems) are thoughts sung out with the breath when people are moved by great forces and ordinary speech no longer suffices . And then it will happen that we, who always think we are smalL will feel still smaller. And we will fear to use words. But it w...