Tribal Poetics of Native America
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...
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eScholarship, University of California
1976
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Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54c5w8b5 |