Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland
Book description
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 Lowensteinâs 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. Itâs an owning kind of book. Inuit poems are raw like the environment they are birthed in â the words and the people. Some might call the poems simplistic, but having lived in the Arctic, I know that even theâŚ
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