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Words from the Fire : Poems by Jidi Majia /

Jidi Majia is one of China's leading indigenous minority poets. In Words from the Fire he explores his Yi heritage in poems that incorporate Yi origin stories, myths, his endangered fire culture, environmental degradation, and the importance of poetic expression in a time of global changes. His...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Majia, Jidi (Autor, Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]
Colección:Mānoa ; 32
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editor's Note
  • Self-Portrait
  • Reply
  • Nuosu People Discuss Fire
  • Confessions of a Mouth Harp
  • Contrast
  • The Fighting Bull Who Died Long Ago
  • Mothers' Hands
  • Black River
  • Headscarf
  • Mouth Harp Maker
  • Song of the Nuosu People
  • Thanking a River
  • For Myself
  • Listening to the Mantra for Sending Off the Soul
  • Understanding
  • The Blue Sheep of Gulilada
  • Tribal Rhythms
  • Lullaby
  • Perceptions
  • Rhapsody in Black
  • Stones
  • Days
  • Hidden Vestiges
  • In the Mountains
  • Bitter Buckwheat
  • Buried Words
  • The Unseen Man
  • The Bimo's Voice
  • Saddle
  • First Love
  • Last Summons
  • Dream Variation
  • Writing a Book of Remembrance
  • A Migrating Tribe
  • Dusk Yearning
  • Autumn Portrait
  • Butuo Maiden
  • A Past Event
  • Epigraph
  • The Colors in Nuosu People's Dreams
  • Night
  • Invisible Oscillation
  • The Sun
  • Just Because
  • For a Butuo Maiden
  • Untitled
  • Soul's Address
  • Confessions of a Hunter's Child
  • Eternal Declaration
  • Hunter's Path
  • The Final Myth
  • Muntjac Call
  • Dusk
  • Lugu Lake
  • Dulohxo Dance
  • Eagle Claw Goblet
  • Song for My Mother
  • For Indigenous Americans
  • Shaluo River
  • Rifle
  • My Hometown Dajishaluo
  • Waiting
  • Saying Good-bye to Greater Liangshan
  • The Old Man and the Cuckoo
  • The Old Singer
  • Ballad for an Old Man
  • Pigment
  • People Ask...
  • I Want to Say to You
  • Serenity
  • Goat
  • Stranger
  • For Salvatore Quasimodo's Enemies
  • Letter
  • Autumn
  • Christ and the General
  • Autumn's Eyes
  • The Last Lush
  • Eulogy for the World's Indigenous Peoples
  • O'Keeffe's Home
  • The Deer Looks Back
  • Missing My Youth
  • Giving Thanks to Mother Earth
  • Freedom
  • I Love Them
  • For 1987
  • Revering Life
  • For the Rivers of This World
  • The Small Train in My Memory
  • The Mediterranean Sea
  • Roman Sun
  • The South
  • Island
  • Water and Glass Venice
  • Visiting Dante
  • Hair
  • Perhaps I've Never Forgotten
  • But . . .
  • Untitled
  • For Them
  • I Once . . .
  • Homeland
  • Tiwanaku
  • The Discovery of Life and Water
  • Mask
  • Face
  • The Real Truth
  • River
  • Rose Ancestor
  • Alpaca
  • The Starry Skies of the Jiana Mani Stones
  • A Poem Written Two Ways
  • I Write My Poems Between the Land and the Sky
  • Mulan
  • The Flow of Time
  • Indigenous People's Coca
  • Condor: The Divine Bird
  • Cantuta
  • A Dim Fire Flickers in the Fire Pit
  • Identity
  • Flames And Words
  • Giuseppe Ungaretti's Poems
  • The Trees Of Jilebute
  • I'm Waiting For You Here
  • Your Breath
  • Traveler Of This World
  • At The Cemetery
  • Silence
  • The Origin Of Poetry
  • That Was Our Father's Generation
  • Split Self
  • Passing Through The River Of Time
  • César Vallejo's Grave
  • For My Mother
  • Investigating
  • Undying Muse
  • Reflected Light On Snow And The Color Of Heaven
  • For My Motherland
  • Mouth Harp
  • Personal Identity, Group Voice, Human Awareness
  • Translator's Note
  • About the Art