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Brian Swann is a professor of English at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. His many publications include Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America and Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, both show more available in Bison Books editions. show less

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Selected Poems of Tudor Arghezi (1976) — Translator — 26 copies
Antaeus No. 18, Summer 1975 — Contributor — 2 copies

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An interesting collection of traditional songs and contemporary Native American poetry.
 
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Inter_Academy | 1 other review | Apr 20, 2023 |
A lovely collection, with the occasional weird academic snoot - but since I'm used to that from Kipling and Yates, I'll live. The stories themselves are utterly lovely.
 
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wetdryvac | Mar 2, 2021 |
I didn't like the story in this book but the pictures tell their own story. I didn't get the riddles and the poems didn't rhyme and I didn't understand the meaning. But here's what I kind of got from reading this story. The pictures in the book are beautiful and show the readers about African cultures. At the end of the book it gives you possible answers to the riddles but I still don't understand them. I think you have to make up your own answers.
 
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Lorrennea | 3 other reviews | Nov 17, 2019 |
I enjoyed this riddle-poems book for a few different reasons. One thing I liked about this riddle-poem book was that the illustrations supported the riddle-poem and helped the reader to better understand what the poem was describing. I also like that the author provided an answer key at the end of what each poem was describing. I thought this was great because it does not leave the reader completely guessing what the author was trying to portray.

The main purpose of this book is to open the reader’s eyes to different perspectives of life through a different lens.… (more)
 
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