I, the song

Built on early transcriptions of Native American songs and arranged by subject, these poems are also accompanied by background information that enables readers to appreciate more fully their imagery, their cultural basis, and the moment that produced them. They enable us to look at our continent through the eyes of poets, hunters, lovers, farmers, holy people, and children. These are poems of vividness, clarity, and intense emotional power, as fresh today as when they were first spoken, when singer and song joined an immanent holiness saturating the visible universe.