Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland

By Knud Rasmussen, Tom Lowenstein (translator),

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Projects images and visions of everyday life for the Canadian and Greenland Eskimo

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I tracked down a 1973 hardback edition of this book because I fell in love with it. The publication date, the year of my birth, was an added bonus. I borrowed Lowenstein’s translation of material collected by Knud Rasmussen, the famous polar explorer, from the library. As soon as I read the preface, I knew I had to own it. It’s an owning kind of book. Inuit poems are raw like the environment they are birthed in – the words and the people. Some might call the poems simplistic, but having lived in the Arctic, I know that even the…

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