The American Rhythm
By: by Mary Austin.
Edition: New and enlarged ed.
Publisher: Houghton
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Rhythm.; Indians of North America -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: Indian songs, poems, and recitations, translated in all their stark and simple beauty, originally published in 1923, here updated by Mary Austin herself with additional poems and songs in 1930. The original Introduction plus Addenda for the Second Edition: Introduction comprise the first 84 pages. These 40 poems, songs and recitations are drawn from many peoples including Plains tribes to Southwestern pueblos.
Table of contents: title: Amerindian Songs; title: Magic Formulas; title: Tribal Lays