Songs are Thoughts
Title | Songs are Thoughts PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Philip |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
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Summary: An English translation of Inuit poems collected primarily by the Danish ethnologist Knud Rasmussen on his expedition from Greenland to the Bering Strait.
Inuit Poems and Songs
Title | Inuit Poems and Songs PDF eBook |
Author | William Thalbitzer |
Publisher | International Polar Institute |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Folk songs |
ISBN | 9780996193825 |
Having devoted his life to study of the Eskimos, their language, spiritual life and religion, Thalbitzer found in their values his own mission to search for and preserve theirs
Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland
Title | Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland PDF eBook |
Author | Knud Rasmussen |
Publisher | [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Canadian poetry |
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Poems of the Inuit
Title | Poems of the Inuit PDF eBook |
Author | John Robert Colombo |
Publisher | Oberon |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Poetry |
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Collection of 80 poems originally transcribed and translated by cultural anthropologists in remote Arctic settlements during the first two decades of this century. Illustrated with photographs by Robert Flaherty.
Canadian Inuit literature
Title | Canadian Inuit literature PDF eBook |
Author | Robin McGrath |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1984-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1772822574 |
A study of the development of contemporary Inuit literature, in both Inuktitut and English, including a discussion of its themes, structures and roots in oral tradition. The author concludes that a strong continuity persists between the two narrative forms despite apparent differences in subject matter and language.
Corpse Whale
Title | Corpse Whale PDF eBook |
Author | dg nanouk okpik |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2012-11-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 081659936X |
A self-proclaimed “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century—a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics. Fearless in her craft, okpik brings an experimental, yet poignant, hybrid aesthetic to her first book, making it truly one of a kind. “It takes all of us seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling to be one,” she says, embodying these words in her work. Every sense is amplified as the poems, carefully arranged, pull the reader into their worlds. While each poem stands on its own, they flow together throughout the collection into a single cohesive body. The book quickly sets up its own rhythms, moving the reader through interior and exterior landscapes, dark and light, and other spaces both ecological and spiritual. These narrative, and often visionary, poems let the lives of animal species and the power of natural processes weave into the human psyche, and vice versa. Okpik’s descriptive rhythms ground the reader in movement and music that transcend everyday logic and open up our hearts to the richness of meaning available in the interior and exterior worlds.
Native Writers and Canadian Writing
Title | Native Writers and Canadian Writing PDF eBook |
Author | William Herbert New |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780774803717 |
Focuses on literature by and about Canada's native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both native and non-native writers. Directs the reader to the underlying traditions - largely misunderstood by the non-native community - of myths, rituals and songs.