![]() ![]() These Inuit tales are beyond learning - beyond ABC and 123 - they are life told with pictures, told with words - told with the heart from a deeply beautiful culture and people. I've been dishing out so many 5 star picture book reviews, but for such good reason. This book is ephemeral but powerful succinctly written. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley Short, sweet, simple and complex, as the many magic words it holds inside. ![]() This one is very effective in that regard, and for that, it can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. You just have to let them be, strange and beautiful, as eerie and colorful as the illustrations filling the pages with its own kind of magic.įolktales are powerful, they channel the essence of other people, their vision of the world. Take a moment as the magic and power of your mind awakens with the words. When you read it, take your time enjoying each of the words, feeling their magic course through your eyes, your mind, your tongue, if you read it aloud.įeel the bear, the caribou, the fish, the rabbit, the wolf… let them be one with you again, rediscovering the magic stored in their names. Recorded and first translated to Danish by Knud Rasmussen during his 1920 expedition to the Arctic Circle, now translated to English by Edward Field and Illustrated by Mike Blanc, Magic Words recounts a time before we’ve forgotten how to speak the true language of the world. Such magic is at the center of this beautiful Inuit folktale: Magic Words. With such emphasis on the spoken world, it’s not difficult to understand that words hold magic-both, literally and metaphorically. Hence language in itself is an act of creation and our place in the world is defined and created by it. In this cosmology, language is how we interpret the world, recreating it. Inuit Cosmology, the spiritual narrative of how the world came to be and the place people have in it, is rich and kind, and it has interested me for some time.ĭrastically different to the origin myths and legends from Europe and Asia, which we may find more familiar, in the Inuit origin myth there are no mother or father figures and the cosmos is ruled by no one. After the Fall, Poems Old and New, will be published by the U. His most recent book is his literary memoirs, The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era. He and his partner Neil Derrick, long-time residents of Greenwich Village, have written a best-selling historical novel about the Village, The Villagers. In 1979, he edited the anthology, A Geography of Poets, and in 1992 with Gerald Locklin and Charles Stetler, brought out a sequel, A New Geography of Poets. Other honors include the Shelley Memorial Award, a Prix de Rome, and an Academy Award for the documentary film “To Be Alive,” for which he wrote the narration. In 1992, he received a Lambda Award for Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992. But it was not until 1963 that his first book, Stand Up, Friend, With Me, won the Lamont Award and was published. He began writing poetry during World War II, after a Red Cross worker handed him an anthology of poetry. He served in WWII in the 8th Air Force as a navigator in heavy bombers, and flew 25 missions over Germany. EDWARD FIELD was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in Lynbrook, L.I., where he played cello in the Field Family Trio which had a weekly radio program on WGBB Freeport. ![]()
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