Marï¿½a Sabina Selections

Name: Marï¿½a Sabina Selections
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ISBN: 9780520239531

ISBN-10: 0520239539

ISBN-13: 9780520239531

Edition: 2010

Authors: Marï¿½a Sabina, Jerome Rothenberg, Alvaro Estrada

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A shaman and visionary--not a poet in any ordinary sense--Mariacute;a Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimeacute;nez, 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. Seeking cures through language--with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself--she was, as Henry Munn describes her, "a genius [who] emerges from the soil of the communal, religious-therapeutic folk poetry of a native Mexican campesino people." She may also have been, in the words of the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 225
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880



Editor's Preface


The Life


Written with



The Chants


The Folkways Chant From The 1970 Session: Three Excerpts From


The Mushroom Velada: Three Excerpts


Commentaries & Derivations


Introduction to The Life of Mariacute;a Sabina



From Teo-Nanaacute;catl: The Mushroom Agape


The Uniqueness of Mariacute;a Sabina



Mariacute;a Sabina in Mexico City



From Fast Speaking Woman



Fast Speaking Woman & the Dakini Principle



The Little Saint of



The Poet Speaks, the Mountain Sings &hellips;



The Song Begins



Selected Bibliography


Source Notes and Acknowledgments