"Maria Sabina's "Selected Works introduces and enhances the
understanding of one of the world's most remarkable poets. Mr.
Rothenberg frames her work within the larger context of
'ethnopoetics' with no academic reductionism whatsoever, a rare and
indispensable service to a 'world poet' such as Maria Sabina. The
translation of Maria Sabina, her 'autobiography' and her oral
poetry, is exquisite, powerful, rendered with linguistic
dignity."--Howard Norman
"This book transmits not only a full and rich experience with
one of the most extraordinary personalities and poetic voices of
our time, but also a great lesson in our understanding of the
relations between religious inspiration and its artistic
expression. It enriches our perceptions of the nature and
possibilities of oral composition, complementing what we already
know of it from the study of the Homeric and other poems in its
great tradition."--George Economou
"Maria Sabina is one of the great figures of American shamanism.
Her "Chants "is a masterpiece of indigenous visionary poetry. Her
"Life "is the account of a woman who transcended her own culture
and its material poverty to become one of the great women of the
twentieth century. The veneration of her work continues beyond her
death. To read her is to embark on a journey to the world of the
extrasensorial."--Homero Aridjis
"In the chants of Maria Sabina, we can appreciate the interplay
of individual invention and traditional liturgy within the oral
creativity of a non-literate society. The recordings of her words
that have saved them from oblivion give us the opportunity to
glimpse the emergence of a genius from the soil of the communal,
religious folk poetry of a nativeMexican campesino people."--Henry
Munn
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