{"product_id":"shaking-the-pumpkin-traditional-poetry-of-the-indian-north-americas-9780385012966","title":"Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas\u003c\/strong\u003e by rothenberg, jerome. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385012966.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this gathering from many tribes, Jerome Rothenberg, whose TECHNICIANS OF THE SACRED: A RANGE OF POETRIES FROM AFRICA, AMERICA, ASIA AND OCEANIA has been hailed as “both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight”, reveals the great poetries and cultures what most interest and impresses him – as a later-day American and as a poet. Included here are the complete text of SHAKING THE PUMPKIN sacred curing songs from the Society of Mystic Animals, translated by Rothenberg and Richard Johnny John, a Seneca songmaker; Rothenberg’s working of a Navajo horse-song as an equivalent of an English sound poem; National Tarn’s version of a major section of the never-before-translated pre-Conquest Mayan play, “Rabinal Achi”; the complete text of a “sacred-clown” fertility drama of the Pueblo Indians; picture poems from the Cuna and Chippewa; two sections from Munro Edmonson’s reconstruction of the POPOL VUH as verse; Dennis Tedlock’s “total translation” of a Zuni Spoken narrative; a Book of Events (happenings); poems of the Netsilik Eskimos translated by Edward Field and Armand Schwerner; and selections from Tepehua thought-poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44975505408053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385012969","price":42.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385012966_c32bbda6-7177-4d8d-be22-e3100d7f9870.jpg?v=1778951678","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shaking-the-pumpkin-traditional-poetry-of-the-indian-north-americas-9780385012966","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}