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This title contains moving quotations from leading American Native Indians, Chiefs, Medicine Men, as well as ordinary people, poems, songs, prose, speeches and stories both past and present. The spiritual wisdom of these peoples is based on a love and reverence for Nature, a belief in a Supreme Being and a spirit world which interacts with human activity. The contents are in alphabetical order and are grouped around the main Native Indian Nations from Apache to Zuni, including the Sioux, Eskimo, Cherokee and many more. It also includes tributes from famous Poets such as Longfellow and George Meredith etc. The introduction is by a leading authority in the field, Dr. Mick Gidley, Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Leeds. He puts the broad scope of the anthology in historical context and explains succinctly and intelligently the wonderful diversity of cultures and languages that it celebrates.
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Alan Jacobs has made a lifelong study of mysticism and is a regularly published author and poet. He is the editor of Poetry for the Spirit and Tales from Rumi and the beautiful poetic translations of The Gnostic Gospels and The Upanisads in this series.
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Another Beautiful Anothology,
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This review is from: Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One with Nature (Sacred Texts) (Hardcover)
Subtitled `A Spiritual Traditional at One with Nature', this is yet another beautiful collection of poems from the mystical anthologist, Alan Jacobs, whose `Poetry for the Spirit' is already a modern-day classic.
This beautiful and inspiring collection of prose and poetry, songs and speeches draws from the words of the great Native American Indians - chiefs, medicine men and members of native tribes. The book is also greatly enhanced by a scholarly introduction by Dr Mick Gidley, Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Leeds. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in poetry: what sets this exquisite volume apart is its return to the ancient traditions of the Americas, a genre that is often overlooked. And yet, many of the poems are surprisingly modern: `Song of an Initiate' climbed the blue staircase up to the sky climbed where the roses were opening where roses were speaking heard nothing nothing to hear heard silence I climbed the roses were singing where the gods were waiting blue staircase up in the sky but heard nothing nothing to hear heard silence silence [Anon] Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Another Beautiful Anthology,
By Paula Marvelly - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One with Nature (Sacred Wisdom) (Hardcover)
Subtitled `A Spiritual Traditional at One with Nature', this is yet another beautiful collection of poems from the mystical anthologist, Alan Jacobs, whose `Poetry for the Spirit' is already a modern-day classic.
This beautiful and inspiring collection of prose and poetry, songs and speeches draws from the words of the great Native American Indians - chiefs, medicine men and members of native tribes. The book is also greatly enhanced by a scholarly introduction by Dr Mick Gidley, Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Leeds. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in poetry: what sets this exquisite volume apart is its return to the ancient traditions of the Americas, a genre that is often overlooked. And yet, many of the poems are surprisingly modern: `Song of an Initiate' climbed the blue staircase up to the sky climbed where the roses were opening where roses were speaking heard nothing nothing to hear heard silence I climbed the roses were singing where the gods were waiting blue staircase up in the sky but heard nothing nothing to hear heard silence silence [Anon] Highly recommended. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Incredible reading material,
By Candy O'Donnell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One with Nature (Sacred Wisdom) (Hardcover)
This book is full of wonderful stories, legends, myths for anyone interested in Native Americans.
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