Snake Poems - Softcover

Alarcon, Francisco X.

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Synopsis

Inspired by a description of pre-Columbian Aztec incantations recorded by a Mexican priest at the start of the Spanish Inquisition, this collection of poems--in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl--celebrates a native American spirit

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish

Review

Acupuncture For The Back
Against Anger
Against Scorpion's Sting And Poison
Against Unruly Ants
Aguamiel
Birds
Birth
Calendar Keepers
Canto A Las Tortillas
Chicome-coatl/seven Snake
Chicome-xochitl/seven Flower
Cihuacoatl
Clouds
Cutting Wood
Day And Night
Divining By Looking In The Water
Divining With Corn
Divining With The Hands
Domingo Hernandez
Drought
Ensnared Deer
First Offering
Flowers
For Bathing
For Bone Fractures
For Fatigue And Body Pains
For Fevers
For Finding Affection
For Hunting Birds
For Hunting Deer
For Keeping Animals Out Of Sown Fields
For Love
For Planting Camotes
For Planting Corn
For Storing Corn
For Strained Chests
Four Directions
Heart
Hello
Herbs
Hernando Ruiz De Alarcon
Holocaust
Home Spirit
I'm Not Really Crying
In Ixtli Yollotl/ Face And Heart
In The Middle Of The Night
In Xochitl In Cuicatl
Journey
Listen
Little Toltecs
Martin De Luna
Massage
Matriarch
Messengers
Mestizo
Midnight Water Song
Moon
Morning Ritual
Nahual
Nature
Necer Alone
New Day
Night
Nomatca Nehuatl
Not Poems
Ode To Tomatoes
Ollin/movement
Ololiuqui
Oracle
Potent Seeds
Prayer For The Sun Before Traveling
Prayer To Fire
Rainbow
Reconciling
Rescue
Same
Seer
Shame
Silence
Snake Wheel
Songs
Spirits Of The Forest
The Story Of Yappan
Sun's Children
Temicxoch
Tepeyollotli
Thunder
To Cast Sleep
To Earthworms Before Fishing With A Hook
To Those Who Have Lost Everything
To Undo The Sleep Spell
Tobacco
Tonal
Tonalamatl/spirit Book
Tonantzin
Traveler's Prayer
Urban Villagers
Visions
Water Spirits
We're One
Wiser
Working Hands
Yoliliztli/life In Motion
Yolloxochitl/heart-flower
Ancient Nahuatl Poem
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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