The Sky Clears : Poetry of the American Indians
by A. Grove Day
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0803250479
- ISBN 13
- 9780803250475
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 1964 Bison Books, Lincoln, NE. c1964. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 9th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; light shelfwear to tips and corners; light rubbing to wraps; light soiling to wraps and textblock edges. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 204 pp 8vo. About the Book
From the totem-pole makers of the Northwest to the hunters of the eastern woodlands, from the horse nations of the plains to the desert dwellers of the Southwest and the Mayas and Aztecs of ancient Mexico--from some forty tribal groups--A. Grove Day has collected examples of traditional American Indian verse. "This is a book to be read for pleasure," he writes; its purpose is "to show the variety and excellence of many kinds of authentic Indian poetry." Set in their cultural context, the selections also illustrate the major role, practical as well as aesthetic, that poetry played in the lives of Native American peoples. The translations are those of professional students of Indian languages who were also endowed with poetic powers of their own: people such as Franz Boas, Natalie Curtis, Frances Densmore, Washington Matthews, Herbert J. Spinden.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015485
- Title
- The Sky Clears : Poetry of the American Indians
- Author
- A. Grove Day
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803250479
- ISBN 13
- 9780803250475
- Publisher
- Bison Books
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, NE
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Indian poetry, Indian verse, poems lyrics, American Indian poetry, North American Tribes, Mayas, Aztecs, Eskimos, Plains Indians, Apache, Pueblo, spirit poems, verse poems
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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