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Poetica 4 'Flower and song' was the ancient Mexican Aztecs' metaphor for poetry. Their brilliant poetic tradition has remained relatively unknown, despite the work of various scholars. This title presents the many facets of that extraordinary society before the Spanish Conquest. It gives us powerful echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs.
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Edward Kissam, born in Florida in 1943, spent his formative years in Mexico. He studied at Princeton and at Magdalen College, Oxford, before returning to graduate studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His collections of poems are `The Sham Flyers' (1969) and `Jerusalem and The People' (1972). Since 1970 he has lived in Sonoma County, California, where in recent years he has worked with youth employment programmes for displaced farmworkers and in documentary television production.
Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his publications are six collections of poems, most recently `Choosing a Guest' (1983), his new and selected poems, and a novel, `The Colonist' (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of `PN Review' and managing director of Carcanet Press.
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Flower and song : poems of the Aztec peoples / translated and introduced by Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt
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London : Anvil Press Poetry : distributed by Rex Collings, 1977
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First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 143 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects; Nahuatl poetry ; Translations into English. Indian poetry ; Translations into English. English poetry Translations from Aztec. Aztec poetry Translations into English. Poetry in Nahuatl ; Anthologies ; Translations. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 374790
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Flower and song : poems of the Aztec peoples / translated and introduced by Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt
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London : Anvil Press Poetry : distributed by Rex Collings, 1977
ISBN 10: 0856460184
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First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 143 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects; Nahuatl poetry ; Translations into English. Indian poetry ; Translations into English. English poetry Translations from Aztec. Aztec poetry Translations into English. Poetry in Nahuatl ; Anthologies ; Translations. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 374790
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