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Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians by David Wagoner (review)

Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau... Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians by David Wagoner (review) Jarold Ramsey Western American Literature, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 1980, pp. 37-40 (Review) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1980.0078 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579315/summary Access provided at 25 Feb 2020 08:41 GMT from JHU Libraries Essay Review Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians. By David Wagoner. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. 125 pages, $9.95.) There is so much to admire in this book, that it may seem perverse to begin its praise by enumerating some of the things that might have gone wrong with it. But such enumeration can be itself a kind of praise: remem­ ber Yeats' observation about the pleasure in a sense of difficulty overcome. So here another writer (it would not be hard to offer candidates) might have worked over western Indian materials at length, as David Wagoner has done, and produced a new version of Hiawatha for believers in noble savagery, or a now-generation trickster cycle in which all the diverse native trickster http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians by David Wagoner (review)

Ramsey, Jarold
Western American Literature , Volume 15 (1) – Oct 4, 2017
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Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians by David Wagoner (review) Jarold Ramsey Western American Literature, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 1980, pp. 37-40 (Review) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1980.0078 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579315/summary Access provided at 25 Feb 2020 08:41 GMT from JHU Libraries Essay Review Who Shall Be the Sun?: Poems Based on the Lore, Legends and Myths of Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians. By David Wagoner. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. 125 pages, $9.95.) There is so much to admire in this book, that it may seem perverse to begin its praise by enumerating some of the things that might have gone wrong with it. But such enumeration can be itself a kind of praise: remem­ ber Yeats' observation about the pleasure in a sense of difficulty overcome. So here another writer (it would not be hard to offer candidates) might have worked over western Indian materials at length, as David Wagoner has done, and produced a new version of Hiawatha for believers in noble savagery, or a now-generation trickster cycle in which all the diverse native trickster

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