Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia & Oceania by Pablo Neruda, N. Rambova, Ronald M. Berndt, Helen Codere, Kenneth P. Emory, Gladys A. Reichard, Buell Quain, Bakare Gbadamosi, Bronisław Malinowski, Jerome Rothenberg, Mircea Eliade, Raymond Firth, Ulli Beier

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Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia & Oceania

Pablo Neruda, N. Rambova, Ronald M. Berndt, Helen Codere, Kenneth P. Emory, Gladys A. Reichard, Buell Quain, Bakare Gbadamosi, Bronisław Malinowski, Jerome Rothenberg, Mircea Eliade, Raymond Firth, Ulli Beier with Willard R. Trask (Translator), Alexandre Piankoff (Translator), Clayton Eshleman (Translator)

550 pages • paperback • first pub 1968 • 5 editions

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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"Technicians of the Sacred presents 'primitive' and ancient poetries as the incantations they are, loaded with power and very full of the magic that invests all good poetry. The treatment is fascinating.... The inclusion of drawings and ceremonial...