Swann, Brian

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Wearing the morning star

Native American song-poems
2005
A collection of Native American song lyrics that celebrate the traditions of the indigenous peoples of North America, each accompanied by notes discussing its origins and context.
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I tell you now

autobiographical essays by native American writers
1987

The house with no door

African riddle-poems
1998
A collection of original poems created from riddles of various African tribes.

Coming to light

contemporary translations of native literatures of North America
1996
An anthology of Native American songs, stories, prayers, and orations, each accompanied by translators' notes that tell how the selection was told or sung, and its significance to its narrator.

Touching the distance

Native American riddle-poems
1998
A collection of brief poems, most only a single line, adapted from the riddles of various Native American tribes. The illustrations reveal the answers to the riddles.

Native American songs and poems

an anthology
1996
A collection of lyrics and verse composed by Native American writers and poets, drawing from the cultures of Seminole, Pima, Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Nootka, Arapaho, Paiute, and others.

Poetry comes up where it can

an anthology : poems from the Amicus journal, 1990-2000
2000
A collection of poems about the natural world that were featured in "The Amicus Journal" between 1990 and 2000.

Coming to light

contemporary translations of native literatures of North America
1994
An anthology introduces American Indian oral literature.

A basket full of white eggs

riddle poems
1988
Fifteen brief poems, with folk sources in a variety of countries, present riddles to solve which can be answered in the illustrations.
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