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Il powwow della fine del mondo Published by QuattroVenti Publication date: 2005 Parallel translations, in English and Italian, of poetry selections from The Business of Fancydancing and The Summer of Black Widows Translated, annotated and with an afterword by Giorgio Mariani Cover art fom Fritz Scholder's Indian Wrapped in a Flag (1976) buy this book table of contents

Table of Contents
13/16
13/16

Translated from the American
Traduzione dall'americano

Morphine and codeine
Morfina e codeina

Love hard
Ama forte

Evolution
Evoluzione

Powwow
Powwow

Indian boy love song
Canzone d’amore del reagazzo indiano

War all the time
Guerra continua

The business of fancydancing
L’impresa fancydancing

Heroes
Eroi

Native hero
Eroe nativo

Eugene Boyd don’t drink here anymore
Eugene Boyd non beve più qui

Giving blood
Donare il sangue

The summer of black widows
L’estate delle vedove nere

Defending Walt Whitman
In difesa di Walt Whitman

That place where ghosts of salmon jump
Quel posto dove saltano i fantasmi dei salmoni

Father and farther
Padre sempre più lontano

Fire as verb and noun
Il fuoco come berbo e come sostantivo

Sister fire, brother smoke
Sorella fiamma, fratello fumo

Drum as love, fear and prayer
Il tamburo come amore, paura e preghiera

Owl dancing with Fred Astaire
Danza della civetta con Fred Astaire

Airplane
Aeroplano

Capital punishment
Pena capitale

Tourists
Turisti

How to write the great american indian novel
Come scrivere il grande romanzo indiano-americano

The Powwow at the end of the world
Il Powwow della fine del mondo

The Sasquatch poems
Le poesie die Sasquatch

Inside Dachau
Dentro Dachau

Things (for an indian) to do in New York (city)
Cose (per un indiano) da fare a New York (city)

Bob’s Coney Island
La Coney Island di Bob

Note ai testi delle poesie

Postfazione

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