one book has gone in the giveaway (to pb in sydney). one still available for the first w.a. reader to email me: readingrevival at gmail dot com.
posted by michaelf @ 7:26 AM
Friday, August 25, 2006
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this blog is not about me, but about interesting books. but as i dont have a personal blog heres the brief info on my own books: 1) ode ode, salt 2003; 2) (new): BREAK ME OUCH, 3 deep, 2006 (graphic poetry). to purchase go to my publisher's websites or (or for any other reason) email me - readingrevival at gmail dot com. a raiders guide coming soon from giramondo.
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2 Comments:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for 'Ngarla Songs' - I've been reading it intermittently. That is, not all at once and not sequentially.
It is an impressive book - an extraordinary language document.
To me it's more of an anthropological/historical/linguistic book than a book of poetry or song. (Although it is that too and I am obviously a non-indigenous old gubba poet)
An accompanying CD of the songs being sung would have been a perfect complement.
I wonder what linguist-poets like Lee Cataldi, who has written a dictionary of indigenous language with senior western desert (I think) women, would think of 'Ngarla Songs'.
Have you read 'Footprints Across Our Land' - short stories by Western Desert women ? (Magabala Books published it back in 1995) - it began as part of a bi-lingual program in Wirrimanu where the local language is Kukatja. It has stories told through painting so it's nicely graphic (full colour too).
It has a glossary - which I'd have liked in 'Ngarla Songs' - but then that's a whole OTHER project.
Though for me a glossary would have given the reader a structure for the songs - they seem kind of abstract to me - not the content - but the otherness of the language, where I'm puzzled by the lack of repetition in Ngarla where it exists in the English translations..
Pam
hi pam, no i dont know 'footprints..'. there is a ngarla dictionary available - also by brown & geytenbeek; st kilda library has it ..
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