Research Catalog

Title

Snake poems : an Aztec invocation / Francisco X. Alarcón.

Author

Alarcón, Francisco X., 1954-

Publication

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU

Description

xiv, 162 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Contemporary poems written in the form and language of the Nahuatl the Indian language spoken by the Aztec.

Subject

• Ruiz de Alarcón, Hernando > Poetry
• Ruiz de Alarcón, Hernando, active 17th century
• Aztecs > Religion
• Indians of Mexico > Religion
• Aztecs > Poetry
• Indians of Mexico > Poetry
• Aztec mythology > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Authors' inscriptions (Provenance)
• Poetry
• Poetry.

Note

• English, Spanish, and Aztec.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-162).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Hello -- Four Directions -- Silence -- Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon (1587-1646) -- Same -- In the Middle of the Night -- I'm Not Really Crying -- Shame -- Mestizo -- Matriarch -- Rescue -- Tonalamatl/Spirit Book -- Songs -- Nahual -- Ollin / Movement -- To Those Who Have Lost Everything -- Never Alone -- Heart -- Temicxoch -- Nomatca Nehuatl -- Midnight Water Song -- Journey -- Traveler's Prayer -- Martin de Luna -- Day and Night -- Yolloxochitl / Heart-Flower -- Ololiuhqui -- Morning Ritual -- Prayer for the Sun Before Traveling -- Cutting Wood -- Birds -- For Hunting Birds -- Little Toltecs -- For Hunting Deer -- Ensnared Deer
• -- Chicome-Xochitl / Seven Flower -- For Keeping Animals Out of Sown Fields -- Against Unruly Ants -- To Earthworms Before Fishing with a Hook -- Spirits of the Forest -- First Offering -- Aguamiel -- Clouds -- Chicome-Coatl / Seven Snake -- Rueda vibora / Snake Wheel -- Calendar Keepers -- Thunder -- Rainbow -- Water Spirits -- For Planting Corn -- For Storing Corn -- For Planting Camotes -- Canto a las Tortillas -- Ode to Tomatoes -- Urban Villagers -- Drought -- Potent Seeds -- Against Anger -- Home Spirit -- To Cast Sleep -- To Undo the Sleep Spell -- For Finding Affection -- For Love -- Nature -- For Bathing -- Seer -- Visions --
• Listen -- Oracle -- Divining with the Hands -- Prayer to Fire -- Tobacco -- Divining with Corn -- Tonal -- Divining by Looking in the Water -- Wiser -- Yoliliztli / Life in Motion -- Messengers -- Flowers -- We're One -- Birth -- Reconciling -- In Ixtli In Yollotl / Face and Heart -- Domingo Hernandez -- Herbs -- For Strained Chests -- Tonantzin -- Cihuacoatl -- For Bone Fractures -- Massage -- Acupuncture for the Back -- For Fevers -- For Fatigue and Body Pains -- Holocaust -- Working Hands -- Not Poems -- The Story of Yappan -- Against Scorpion's Sting and Poison -- Tepeyollotli -- New Day -- Moon -- Sun's Children -- Night -- In Xochitl In Cuicatl.

ISBN

0811801616

LCCN

^^^91030469^//r94

OCLC

• 24469304
• SCSB-10953139

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library