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Subject(s)

• Nahuatl poetry [Browse]
• Nahuatl poetry—Translations into English [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

Bierhorst, John [Browse]

Series

• William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere. [More in this series]
• The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

Text in English and Nahuatl.

Contents

• On the translation of Aztec poetry
• Guide to the vocabulary
• Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España/Ballads of the Lords of New Spain
• Guide to the transcription
• The text in Nahuatl and in English
• Part I
• Friends, let us sing
• "I'm coming, I, Yoyontzin, craving flowers"
• Again they make music
• God Self Maker's home is nowhere
• Friends, listen to this
• "I come to guard the city"
• The flower lords, the song bells
• Chalco's come to fight
• Let's drink
• For a moment God's drums come forth
• May your flesh, your hearts be leafy green
• The flower trees are whirling
• In this flower house
• Princes, I've been hearing good songs
• Part II
• Now let us begin
• A master of egrets makes these flowers move
• On this flower mat you paint your songs
• Are you obliging?
• I'm born in vain
• I strike up a song
• I stand up the drum
• Your flowers blossom as bracelets
• My heart is greatly wanting flowers
• Let there be comrades
• Strike it up beautifully
• Eagle flowers, broad leafy ones, are sprouting
• A shield-roaring blaze-smoke rises up
• Flowers are our only adornment
• Part III
• You paint with flowers, with songs
• Your flowers are jade
• Come forth and play our drum
• In the house of pictures
• Part IV
• Begin in beauty
• Like flowers
• "Never with shields"
• Jade, turquoise: your chalk, [your] plumes
• Commentary
• Concordance to proper nouns
• Verbs, particles, and common nouns.

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Other title(s)

Project Muse UPCC books.

ISBN

9780292718524 (cl. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008025278

OCLC

232327265

RCP

H - S

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