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Poet-chief : The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda
author
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Nolan, James.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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0826314848
print isbn13
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9780826314840
ebook isbn13
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9780585178950
language
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English
subject
Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Aesthetics, Literature, Comparative--American and Chilean, Literature, Comparative--Chilean and American, Neruda, Pablo,--1904-1973--Aesthetics, Literature and anthropology--America, Oral tradition--America, Indians in literatur
publication date
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1994
lcc
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PS3242.A34N64 1994eb
ddc
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861
subject
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Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Aesthetics, Literature, Comparative--American and Chilean, Literature, Comparative--Chilean and American, Neruda, Pablo,--1904-1973--Aesthetics, Literature and anthropology--America, Oral tradition--America, Indians in literatur
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Poet-Chief
The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda
James Nolan
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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1994 by the University of New Mexico Press All Rights Reserved. First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nolan, James, 1947 Poet-chief: the Native American poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda / James Nolan. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1484-8 (cl) 1. Whitman, Walt, 18191892Aesthetics. 2. Literature, Comparative American and Chilean. 3. Literature, ComparativeChilean and American. 4. Neruda, Pablo, 19041473Aesthetics. 5. Literature and anthropologyAmerica. 6. Oral traditionAmerica. 7. Indians in literature. 8. IndiansAesthetics. 9. Poetics. I. Title. PS3242.A34N64 1994 861dc20 93-2379 CIP
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In memory of another group of vanishing Americans, the "disappeared" and disappearing poets and idealists of my generation cut down by Pinochet and by AIDS:
"I stop somewhere waiting for you."
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction Ancestor-Continents: American and Americano
1
Chapter 1 Influence and Inheritance
13
Chapter 2 Foreign Words and Indian Corn
35
Chapter 3 Ritual Speech: I, the Song
61
Chapter 4 This Ecstatic Nation: Tribe, Mask, and Voice
122
Chapter 5 The Vertical Voyage: "The Sleepers" and"Alturas de Macchu Picchu"
178
Epilogue Ghost Dance
218
Note on Texts Used and Abbreviations
223
Notes
225
Bibliography
249
Index
259
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Acknowledgments
I acknowledge with gratitude the Jacob K. Javitz Fellowship in the Humanities, which provided the time both to research and write this book, and I am paticularly indebted to Jack Schmitt for generously sending me the in-progress manuscripts of his translation of Canto general.
For the discerning readings, encouragement, and advice offered at various stages in competing this book, I am grateful to Gwen Kirkpatrick and Richard Bridgman of the Spanish and English departments, respectively, at the University of California, Berkeley, and to Marta Morello-Frosch and Michael Cowan of the Literature Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
I am especially thankful to Ulysses D'Aquila for his enthusiasm and for his careful readings of the manuscript, and to Duane Niatum, Philip Lamantia, and Francesca Taylor for inspiring and insightful conversions about American Indian cultures. I also thank my fellow New Orleans-expatriate West Coast cousins: Melissa Viator for her patient introduction to the baffling miracles of computers; Melinda McGee, for her assistance at the Stanford University library; and Aime and Randall Nelson for their hospitality in Santa Cruz. Barbara Guth, my editor at the University of New Mexico Press, has remained thoughtful and supportive throughout the project, and I appreciate her efforts in helping this book to reach print.
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Introduction Ancestor-Continents: American and Americano
The whole continent is obsessed by the question: what is it to be an American? Octavio Paz
Anthologies of North American poetry often begin onthe sadly perfunctory note of including a selection of American Indian poems to preface a presentation of "the American tradition." Seldom is any attempt made to relate these translations of native oral literature to the poetry that follows. Those few pages are intended to represent, in its entirety, a dark, unknowable before, the millennia of "primitive" prehistory preceding the advance of European ''civilization." In his popular anthology of the 1940s, Oscar Williams ventures further than most editors in explaining his introductory American Indian material: "I have included these translations because I am sure that the originals were important poetry and because it would be arrogant to call this book 'American' while omitting poetry that existed in America for long centuries before the short few hundred years of the white man's occupation." Williams insists, however, on the lack of any connection between native and later American forms, that "the peculiar handicap of American poetry has been that it has not had just this indigenous epic material as its foundation. Other major literatures can show organic growth from savage and barbaric folklore, warrior songs and ballads, common to a people long in their habitat."1 What North American poetry lacks, Williams implies, is an aboriginal
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