TY - BOOK ID - 77873235 TI - Poet-chief : the Native American poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda PY - 1994 SN - 058517895X 9780585178950 0826314848 9780826314840 0826326331 PB - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Comparative KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Oral tradition KW - Indians in literature. KW - Indians KW - Poetics. KW - Comparative literature KW - Indian aesthetics. KW - Indians in literature KW - Indian aesthetics KW - Poetics KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - Poetry KW - Aesthetics, Indian KW - Indians of North America KW - Aesthetics KW - Indians of Central America in literature KW - Indians of Mexico in literature KW - Indians of North America in literature KW - Indians of South America in literature KW - Indians of the West Indies in literature KW - Tradition, Oral KW - Oral communication KW - Folklore KW - Oral history KW - Anthropology and literature KW - Anthropology KW - Philology KW - Aborigines, American KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - Amerindians KW - Amerinds KW - Pre-Columbian Indians KW - Precolumbian Indians KW - Ethnology KW - Indigenous peoples KW - American and Chilean. KW - Chilean and American. KW - Aesthetics. KW - American and Chilean KW - Chilean and American KW - Technique KW - History and criticism KW - Civilization KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - Neruda, Pablo, KW - Reyes, Neftalí Ricardo, KW - Basoalto, Neftalí Ricardo Reyes, KW - Nīrūdā, Bāblū, KW - Reyes Basoalto, Neftalí, KW - Nieh-lu-ta, KW - Nieluda, KW - Reyes Basualto, Neftalí, KW - Basualto, Neftalí Reyes, KW - Nerūtā, Pāplō, KW - Nerouda, Pamplo, KW - Bosoalto, Neftali Ricardo Reyes, KW - נערודא, פאבלא KW - 聶鲁达, KW - Ouïtman, Ouōlt, KW - Uitman, Uolʹt, KW - Uitmen, Uot, KW - Uitmen, Uolt, KW - Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, KW - Vālṭ Viṭman̲, KW - Witʻŭmŏn, KW - Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, KW - Vālṭviṭman̲, KW - Waltvitmen, KW - Whitman, Walter, KW - Huiteman, KW - Veeitman, KW - Уитмен, Уолт, KW - ויטמן, וולט, KW - װיטמאן, װאלט, KW - ويتمن، والت، KW - Vitmen, Volt, KW - Uitman, Uollt, KW - Huiteman, Huate, KW - 華特·惠特曼, KW - Neruda, Pablo KW - Literature and anthropology. KW - Oral tradition. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77873235 AB - A long-overdue comparative study of the American voice in hemispheric poetry, Poet-Chief brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, Leaves of Grass and Canto General. In addition they each presented the initiatory journey of a shaman in "The Sleepers" and "Alturas de Macchu Picchu." Despite the historical, cultural, and individual distinctions between their works, they both celebrate a tribal community and assume the functions of what Whitman calls the "poet-chief." These points of intersection between the poetics of Whitman, Neruda, and the American Indian clarify the nature of that broader voice identified as the native in American poetry. This fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break through the partitions that separate the native, English, and Spanish poetic responses to the American hemisphere. ER -