A key into the language of America
By: Rosmarie Waldrop.
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683 -- Relations with Indians -- Poetry; Indians of North America -- Rhode Island -- First contact with Europeans -- Poetry; Narragansett Indians -- Poetry
Description: The legacy of cultural imperialism, the consequences of gender, and the marginalization of the conquered are themes that combine and comment, one on the other, in Rosmarie Waldrop's remarkable new work, A Key into the Language of America. As "formally adventurous" (A.L. Nielson, Washington Review) as ever, German-born Waldrop has based her new collection on Rhode Island founder Roger Williams's 1643 guide (of the same name) to Narragansett Indian language and lore.
Notes: Based on Roger Williams' 1643 book of the same name.