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| Introduction | ||
| In a Far-Off Place | 3 | |
| The Rain-Sorcerer | 4 | |
| Rain in a Dead Man's Footsteps | 5 | |
| Sun, Moon, and Stars | 6 | |
| Prayer to the New Moon | 7 | |
| The Sound of the Stars | 8 | |
| Throwing Fire at the Stars | 9 | |
| The Girl Who Created the Milky Way | 10 | |
| The Sun, the Moon, and the Knife | 12 | |
| What Happens When You Die | 13 | |
| The Nature of /Kaggen | 14 | |
| The Dawn's Heart Star: Two Fragments | 15 | |
| Song of the Dawn's Heart Star | 16 | |
| Blue Mist Like Smoke | 17 | |
| The Origin of the Moon | 18 | |
| A Feather Thrown into the Sky | 19 | |
| Song of Four Winds | 20 | |
| What Is the Moon? | 21 | |
| The Maiden and the Rain | 22 | |
| Rainmaking with a Bow-String | 24 | |
| The Abandoned Old Woman | 25 | |
| The Anger of the Moon | 26 | |
| Catching a Porcupine | 28 | |
| The Rain that Is Male | 30 | |
| Presentiments | 31 | |
| Sneezing Out a Lion | 32 | |
| Sorcerers Are Like Lions | 33 | |
| The Powers of the Dead | 34 | |
| The Wild is One with the Man | 36 | |
| Jackal Clouds | 37 | |
| The Lost Tobacco Pouch: A Song | 38 | |
| Our Blood Makes Smoke | 39 | |
| The Story of Ruyter | 40 | |
| Song of the Broken String | 41 | |
| Xaa-ttin's Lament | 43 | |
| Kabbo's Road into Captivity | 44 | |
| The Name of My Place | 47 | |
| What Is Your Name? | 48 | |
| The Meaning of a Sneeze | 49 | |
| Cows and Twigs | 50 | |
| Kabbo Tells Me His Dream | 51 | |
| Kabbo's Request for Thread | 53 | |
| Return of the Moon | 54 | |
| Index of Poems by Narrator | 59 | |
| Notes to the Poems | 61 | |
| Appendix of original transcripts | 69 |
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Mark Sinishtaj
reviewed Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen--Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition on January 17, 2016 Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen--Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition
"A story is like the wind, it comes floating through the air from a far-off place." These stories are a collection of prose/poetry written by three remaining members of the South African /Xam tribe - - a Bushman linguistic group speaking the click language. The stories recount the sad history of a people destined to extermination by a ruthless genocide. This history makes their stories-turned-poetry even more haunting . . . "Because the string is broken, the country feels as if it lay empty before me, our country seems as if it lay both empty before me, and dead before me."
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Add Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen--Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition, The /Xam Bushmen, hunters, gatherers, some poets among them, were a stone age people who survived nearly 5,000 years in the region now known as the Cape Province of South Africa. By the turn of this century they had completely disappeared, destroyed final, Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen--Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen--Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition, The /Xam Bushmen, hunters, gatherers, some poets among them, were a stone age people who survived nearly 5,000 years in the region now known as the Cape Province of South Africa. By the turn of this century they had completely disappeared, destroyed final, Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen--Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition to your collection on WonderClub |