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VIZENOR, Gerald Robert. Summer in the Spring. Lyric Poems of the Ojibway.
Minneapolis: The Nodin Press,1965.
1st ed. Limited edition. "The Ojibway speak a language belonging to the linguistic family of Algonquian, which at one time extended across the northern United States. Ojibway is a poetic language of moveable images of woodland life...The poems in this book have been interpreted and reexpressed from the original song recordings in Ojibway and from the literal translations done by Frances Densmore for the Bureau of American Ethnology about the turn of the century." Gerald Vizenor is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe of Native Americans. The Ojibwe, Chippewa or Anishinaabe are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their trickster,naanabozbo and healing rituals. 17.5cms x 11cms. Pp.78/colophon, gift message to fep, small red ink c's to rear endpapers. Brown boards illustrated with stylistic variation of an Ojibway pictograph reproduced from a birch bark Midewiwin song scroll - 'he who speaks and he who listens'. D/w illustrated as boards, top of inner fly clipped,top edge rubbed with 1/2 cm tear to top edge fold. VG/G+.
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50.00 GBP
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