Words from the Fire: Poems by Jidi Majia 9780824881849

Table of contents :
Contents
Editor’s Note
Self-Portrait
Reply
Nuosu People Discuss Fire
Confessions of a Mouth Harp
Contrast
The Fighting Bull Who Died Long Ago
Mothers’ Hands
Black River
Headscarf
Mouth Harp Maker
Song of the Nuosu People
Thanking a River
For Myself
Listening to the Mantra for Sending Off the Soul
Understanding
The Blue Sheep of Gulilada
Tribal Rhythms
Lullaby
Perceptions
Rhapsody in Black
Stones
Days
Hidden Vestiges
In the Mountains
Bitter Buckwheat
Buried Words
The Unseen Man
The Bimo’s Voice
Saddle
First Love
Last Summons
Dream Variation
Writing a Book of Remembrance
A Migrating Tribe
Dusk Yearning
Autumn Portrait
Butuo Maiden
A Past Event
Epigraph
The Colors in Nuosu People’s Dreams
Night
Invisible Oscillation
The Sun
Just Because
For a Butuo Maiden
Untitled
Soul’s Address
Confessions of a Hunter’s Child
Eternal Declaration
Hunter’s Path
The Final Myth
Muntjac Call
Dusk
Lugu Lake
Dulohxo Dance
Eagle Claw Goblet
Song for My Mother
For Indigenous Americans
Shaluo River
Rifle
My Hometown Dajishaluo
Waiting
Saying Good-bye to Greater Liangshan
The Old Man and the Cuckoo
The Old Singer
Ballad for an Old Man
Pigment
People Ask...
I Want to Say to You
Serenity
Goat
Stranger
For Salvatore Quasimodo’s Enemies
Letter
Autumn
Christ and the General
Autumn’s Eyes
The Last Lush
Eulogy for the World’s Indigenous Peoples
O’Keeffe’s Home
The Deer Looks Back
Missing My Youth
Giving Thanks to Mother Earth
Freedom
I Love Them
For 1987
Revering Life
For the Rivers of This World
The Small Train in My Memory
The Mediterranean Sea
Roman Sun
The South
Island
Water and Glass Venice
Visiting Dante
Hair
Perhaps I’ve Never Forgotten
But . . .
Untitled
For Them
I Once . . .
Homeland
Tiwanaku
The Discovery of Life and Water
Mask
Face
The Real Truth
River
Rose Ancestor
Alpaca
The Starry Skies of the Jiana Mani Stones
A Poem Written Two Ways
I Write My Poems Between the Land and the Sky
Mulan
The Flow of Time
Indigenous People’s Coca
Condor: The Divine Bird
Cantuta
A Dim Fire Flickers in the Fire Pit
Identity
Flames And Words
Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Poems
The Trees Of Jilebute
I’m Waiting For You Here
Your Breath
Traveler Of This World
At The Cemetery
Silence
The Origin Of Poetry
That Was Our Father’s Generation
Split Self
Passing Through The River Of Time
César Vallejo’s Grave
For My Mother
Investigating
Undying Muse
Reflected Light On Snow And The Color Of Heaven
For My Motherland
Mouth Harp
Personal Identity, Group Voice, Human Awareness
Translator’s Note
About the Art