Poems of the Inuit
By: edited by John Robert Colombo.
Contributors: Colombo, John Robert, 1936-
Publisher: Oberon Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: [Ottawa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Eskimo poetry -- Canada -- Translations into English.
Description: Collection of 80 poems originally transcribed and translated by cultural anthropologists in remote Arctic settlements during the first two decades of this century. Illustrated with photographs by Robert Flaherty.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 115-117.
Discography and filmography: p. 117.
"Songs ... originally sung in Inuktitut ... appear here in English versions that come directly from the Inuktitut or indirectly through the Danish"--P. 7.