The scholar of Native American literature on the vivid tradition of Haida poetry. Robert Bringhurst is a poet, linguist, translator, and essayist who has championed, in a series of remarkable books and lectures, the literary heritage of Native American culture. He’s made it his calling to enroll oral mythtelling in the canon of world literature, ...
What a pleasure to have this chance to ponder this marvelous, and marvelously strange, poem cycle — “Mountains and Rivers Without End”— by our friend Gary Snyder. I must admit the poem has had me flummoxed and befuddled. Yet I was immediately taken with the animistic terrain of these pages. This shifting, metamorphic realm where ...
Here is a riddle that was posed to me by my friend and colleague, the meso-american shaman and poet Martin Prechtel: “Into the fresh blond hair of the young rain deities, The twins drop to retrieve their parents’ face. One disappears in order to hold the other, Whose death as well, feeds the world in ...
In the prosperous land where I live, a mysterious task is underway to invigorate the minds of the populace, and to vitalize the spirits of our children. For a decade, now, parents, politicians, and educators of all forms have been raising funds to bring computers into every household in the realm, and into every classroom ...