Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia & Oceania by Buell Quain, Raymond Firth, Bronisław Malinowski, N. Rambova, Kenneth P. Emory, Jerome Rothenberg, Helen Codere, Mircea Eliade, Bakare Gbadamosi, Gladys A. Reichard, Pablo Neruda, Ronald M. Berndt, Ulli Beier

Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia & Oceania
Buell Quain, Raymond Firth, Bronisław Malinowski, N. Rambova, Kenneth P. Emory, Jerome Rothenberg, Helen Codere, Mircea Eliade, Bakare Gbadamosi, Gladys A. Reichard, Pablo Neruda, Ronald M. Berndt, Ulli Beier with Willard R. Trask (Translator), Clayton Eshleman (Translator), Alexandre Piankoff (Translator)

550 pages • first pub 1968 (view editions)

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"Technicians of the Sacred presents 'primitive' and ancient poetries as the incantations they are, loaded with power and very full of the magic that invests all good poetry. The treatment is fascinating.... The inclusion of drawings and ceremonial...