Maria Sabina: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520239539 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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A shaman and visionary—not a poet in any ordinary sense—María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jiménez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Gordon Wasson, an essay by Henry Munn relating the language of Sabina's chants to those of other Mazatec shamans, and more.. Seeking cures through language—with the
All rights reserved. Magic and poetry intersect in her worldview, which challenges the dualistic Western philosophic framework. Several prose and poetic pieces about Maria Sabina are included to flesh out the chants themselves. But, born early in the twentieth century, she was at the height of her powers when cross-cultural explorers arrived in her village to record her shamanic chants, full of Catholic imagery and spoken extemporaneously under the influence of sacramental peyote. That her work should become part of the series Poets for the Millennium, a spin-off from the two-volume Poems for the Millenium<
An Incredible Person, Shamaness, Poet and Healer Jerome Rothenberg presents a wonderful introduction to the life, visions, and works of this illiterate healer who cured with her words in the midst of mushroom-induced trances. She lived most of her life in grinding poverty in the Oaxacan village of Huautla de Jimenez in Mexico, comforted only by the visions of the "little ones"--hallucinogenic mushrooms. In the midst of one of her visionary encounters, she was invited to read a holy book and the words she saw there gave her the power to create long chants about herself as the healing woman/the sun woman/t