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María Sabina

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María Sabina( )
Author: Sabina, María
Editor: Rothenberg, Jerome
Contribution by: Estrada, Alvaro
Series title:Poets for the Millennium Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-23953-1
Publication Date:Oct 2003
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $57.95
Book Description:

A shaman and visionary--not a poet in any ordinary sense--María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jiménez, 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...
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