THE PRE-FACES Pre-Face (2017) Pre-Face (1984) Pre-Face (1967) THE TEXTS Origins & Namings Genesis I (Cahto, Northern California) Sounds Genesis II (Yolngu, Arnhem Land, Australia) Egyptian God Names Genesis III (Old Babylonian) Images Bantu Combinations 22 Koyukon Riddle Poems Correspondences (Chinese) Genesis IV (Maori, New Zealand) Aztec Definitions Al-H.usayn ibn Ah.mad ibn Kha-lawayh: From The Names of the Lion (Syrian) Genesis V (Hebrew) The Pictures ||Kabbo: The Girl of the Early Race Who Made the Stars (Saan, Southern Africa) The Fragments Genesis VI (Uitoto, Colombia) All Lives, All Dances, & All Is Loud (Baka) Yoruba Praises Taliesin: A Poem for the Wind (Welsh) Tall Kiaahni: War God's Horse Song I (Navajo) FrankMitchell: War God's Horse Song II (Navajo) To the God of Fire as a Horse (Sanskrit, India) The Stars (Passamaquoddy, Maine) Visions & Spels Marpa: The Annunciation (Tibetan) How Isaac Tens Became a Shaman (Gitksan, British Columbia) A Shaman Climbs Up the Sky (Altaic) HehakaSapa[BlackElk]: The Dog Vision (Lakota Sioux) MariaSabina: From The Midnight Velada (Mazatec, Mexico) The Dream of Enkidu (Mesopotamian) A List of Bad Dreams Chanted as a Cause & Cure for Missing Souls (Bidayuh, Sarawak) A'yunini: The Killer (Cherokee) Spell against Jaundice (Serbian) A Poison Arrow (Hausa, Africa) Fer Fio: A Breastplate against Death (Old Irish) Doc Reese: Ol' Hannah (African American) Offering Flowers (Aztec) Bitahatini: From The Night Chant (Navajo) Death & Defeat When Hare Heard of Death (Winnebago) A Peruvian Dance Song (Ayacucho) JuanaManwell: Death Song (Tohono O'odham, Arizona) Homer: From The Odyssey (Greek) Hayi-a'k!u: The Mourning Song of Small-Lake-Underneath (Tlingit, Alaska) !kweiten ta||ken: The Story of the Leopard Tortoise (Saan, Africa) Nottamun Town (Appalachian, United States) The Flight of Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) Dia!kwain: The String Game (Saan, Africa) The Abortion (Santhal, India) Zarabe: Improvised Song against a White Man (Malagasy, Madagascar) Psalm 137 (Hebrew) A Sequence of Songs of the Ghost Dance Religion The Book of Events (I) Lily Events (Yolngu, Arnhem Land, Australia) Garbage Event (Dayak, Borneo) Beard Event (Yolngu, Arnhem Land, Australia) Stone Fire Event (Yolngu, Arnhem Land, Australia) Climbing Event (Sarawak, Borneo) Forest Event (Hungarian) Gift Event (Kwakiutl, British Columbia) Marriage Event (Cook Islands, Polynesia) Three Magic Events (Swedish) Going-Around Event (Chuckchi, Siberia) Language Event (Venda, Southern Africa) Naming Events (Tohono O'odham, Arizona) Burial Events (Tibetan) Friendship Dance (Cherokee) Grease Feast Event (Kwakiutl, British Columbia) Peacemaking Event (Andaman Islands) Wild Man Events (Bohemian) Booger Event (Cherokee) Crazy Dog Events (Apsaalooke) Sea Water Event (Yolngu, Arnhem Land, Australia) Two Dream Events (Seneca Nation) Noise Event (Hebrew) The Book of Events (II) Taming the Storm (Inuinnait) Coronation Event & Drama (Egyptian) For the Rain God Tlaloc: A Dialogue for God & Chanters (Aztec) Qu Yuan: From The Nine Songs: An Ancient Ritualistic Drama (Chinese) Africa Ghosts & Shadows (Baka) The Chapter of Changing into Ptah (Egyptian) The Cannibal Hymn (Egyptian) Conversations in Courtship (Egyptian) The Comet (Ekoi) The Lovers (Ekoi) Drum Poem #7 (Ashanti) Praises of Ogun (Yoruba) Komi Ekpe: Abuse Poem: For Kodzo & Others (Ewe) Awawo, Wife ofJohn: What Fell Down? Penis! (Ekperi) Ogiepo, Son ofAimiebo: What Fell Down? Vulva! (Ekperi) The Train (Hurutshe) Speaking the World: Seven Praise-Mottoes (Dogon) Death Rites I (Baka) Death Rites II (Baka) The Praises of the Falls (Basuto) Ika Meji (Yoruba) Ma- KelezensiaKahamba: Little Leper of Munjolobo (Haya) The Voice of the Karaw (Bamana) Gassire's Lute (Soninke) America Mide- Songs & Picture-Songs (Ojibwa) Seven Ojibwa Songs Jacob Nibenegenesabe: From The Wishing Bone Cycle (Swampy Cree) Francois Mandeville: The Shaman of the Yellowknives: A Chipewyan Talk-Poem (Chipewyan, Canada) Three Lakota Songs From Battiste Good's Winter Count (Dakota) Tewaki: Peyote Songs (Comanche) Song of the Humpbacked Flute Player (Hopi) Andrew Peynetsa: Coyote & Junco (Zuni) The Tenth Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (Navajo) santo blanco: A Song of the Winds (Seri, Mexico) santo blanco: Six Seri Whale Songs Flower World: Four Poems from the Yaqui Deer Dance (Yaqui) Ramon MedinaSilva: To Find Our Life (Huichol) Nezahualcoyotl: The Painted Book (Nahuatl, Texcoco) From Codex Boturini (Aztec) From The Temple of the Sun-Eyed Shield (Maya) From The Popol Vuh: Blood-Girl & the Chiefs of Hell (Maya) Alonzo Gonzales Mo: Mayan Definitions Akkantilele: From Inatoipippiler (Kuna) From The Elegy for the Great Inca Atawallpa (Quechua) Three Quechua Poems Poems for a Carnival (Quechua) Eduardo Calderon: Raising the Mediating Center & the Field of Evil with the Twenty-Five Thousand Accounts & the Chant of the Ancients (Spanish, Peru) The Machi Exorcises the Spirit Huecuve (Mapuche, Chile) Tatilgak: Words from Seven Magic Songs (Inuinnait) Orpingalik: My Breath (Inuit) Inuit Prose Poems Asia The Quest of Milarepa (Tibetan) Khams-Smyon Dharma-Sengge: Ocean Woman Who Already Knows (Tibetan) Keeping Still / The Mountain (Chinese) The Marrying Maiden (Chinese) qu yuan: From The Nine Songs (Chinese) Song of the Dead, Relating the Origin of Bitterness (Nakhi, China) A Shaman Vision Poem (Chinese) Al Que Quiere! 11 Pai-hua (Chinese) From The Kojiki: How Opo-Kuni-Nusi Bids Farewell to His Jealous Wife, Suseri-Bime, in Song (Japanese) HiragaEtenoa: A Song of the Spider Goddess (Ainu) Things Seen by the Shaman Karawe (Chukchi) Praise Song of the Buck-Hare (Teleut) Setchin the Singer (Mansi) Mantra for Binding a Witch (Baiga, India) The Pig (Baiga, India) Two Cosmologies (Sanskrit, India) Nakkirar: From The Guide to Lord Murukan (Tamil, India) AllamaPrabhu: For the Lord of Caves (Kannada, India) Europe & The Ancient Near East The Calendar (Upper Paleolithic) The Vulva Song of Inanna (Sumerian) The Battle between Anat & the Forces of Mot (Ugaritic) From The Song of Ullikummi (Hittite) Hesiod: From Theogony (Greek) Parmenides ofElea: Fragment of a Vision (Greek) From The Thunder, Perfect Mind (Coptic, Egypt) Song of the Arval Brothers (Roman) Birth of the Fire God (Armenian) The Round Dance of Jesus (Syriac) A Song of Amergin (Old Irish) Three Ogham Poems from Inchmarnock (Scottish Gaelic) LlywarchHen: From The Red Book of Hergest (Welsh) Two Poems for All-Hallows' Eve (Welsh) The Fairy Woman's Lullaby (Scottish Gaelic) The Nine Herbs Charm (Anglo-Saxon) From Shakespeare's Lear (English) From The Elder Edda: Odin's Shaman Song (Icelandic) From Kalevala (Finnish) The Fox (Saami) Blood River Shaman Chant (Nenets) Bald Mountain Zaum-Poems (Russian) A Poem for the Goddess Her City & the Marriage of Her Son & Daughter (Serbian) The Message of King Sakis & the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night (Serbian) A Love Poem with Witches (Romanian) Francois Rabelais: The Descriptions of King Lent (French) Deep Song (Spanish Roma) Francesco d'Assisi: The Canticle for Brother Sun (Italian) William Blake: From Europe a Prophecy (English) Oceania Twelve Kura Songs from Tikopia (Tikopian, Solomon Islands) Tolai Songs (Tolai, Kuanua, New Guinea) Pidgin Song (Neo-Melanesian, Papua New Guinea) Tomakam: The Gumagabu Song (Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea) Three Drum Poems (Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea) Songs & Spirit-Songs (Melanesian, Duke of York Islands, Papua New Guinea) The Daybreak (Mudburra, Australia) From George Dyu?gayan's Bulu Line (Nyigina, Australia) Sightings: Kunapipi (Yirrkalla, Arnhem Land, Australia) From The Goulburn Island Cycle (Gumatj, Arnhem Land, Australia) Keaulumoku: From The Kumulipo: Night Births (Hawai`ian, Polynesia) The Woman Who Married a Caterpillar (Hawai`ian, Polynesia) Ruea-a-raka: The Body-Song of Kio (Tuamotu, Polynesia) Koroneu: Funeral Eva (Mangaian, Polynesia) Toto Vaca (Maori, Polynesia) Tomoki: The Lovers I (Kapingamarangi, Polynesia) Tomoki: The Lovers II (Kapingamarangi, Polynesia) Daubitu Velema: Flight of the Chiefs: Song V (iTaukei, Fiji) Wiliami Naura: Animal Story X (iTaukei, Fiji) Survivals & Revivals Inrasara: Allegory of the Land (Cham, Vietnam & Cambodia) Juan Gregorio Regino: Where the Song Begins (Mazatec, Mexico) Allan Natachee: Two for the God Aia (Mekeo, Papua New Guinea) From The Age of Wild Ghosts (Lolop'o, China) Three Incantations (Tzotzil Maya, Mexico) Gennady Aygi: From Twenty-Eight Variations on Themes from Chuvash and Udmurt Folk Songs (Chuvash & Russian) Ahmatjan Osman: The Moons of Childhood (Uyghur & Arabic, China) Two Creole Poems (Haitian) Paddy Roe: Worawora Woman (Nyigina, Australia) They Went to the Moon Mother (Zuni) PapaSusso: How Kora Was Born (Mandinka, Gambia) Leonty Taragupta: The Prayer of the Bear (Khanty, Siberia) MarcelaDelpastre: The Scream of the Stones: Two Poems (Occitan, France) Victor Teran: The North Wind Whips (Isthmus Zapotec, Mexico) Simon Ortiz: What Indians? (Acoma Pueblo) Johnson Jimerson: Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (Seneca Nation) Jordan Abel: The Myth of the Dragon-Fly (Nisg'a Nation, Canada) Toby Wiliguru Pambardu: The First Truck at Tambrey (Yinjibarndi, Australia) Kamau Brathwaite: Angel/Engine (Barbadian) Xu Lizhi: Six Poems of Labor & Desperation (Chinese) ElicuraChihuailaf: Two Poems on Poetry (Mapuche, Chile) Essie Parrish in New York (Kashaya Pomo, California) Henino Vinoko Akpalu: "With Other Poets" (Ewe, Ghana) THE STATEMENTS THE COMMENTARIES POST-FACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS