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The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians
The Wishing Bone Cycle Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians Author:Howard A. Norman An extraordinary achievement of contemporary, ethnopoetics, "The Wishing Bone Cycle" takes its name from the remarkable series of poem-stories that begin this book. Howard A. Norman, a young Canadian poet, first learned these poems about a wishing bone--capable of changing itself into various characters, objects and circumstances... more »--from the venerable Swampy Cree Indian Jacob Slowstream. In addition to the thirty poems of this cycle, Norman has included a series of name-origin poems, a long animal-origin prose tale and a group of songs and lullabies.