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God's drum, and other cycles from Indian lore

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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A sequence of poems evokes dawn through dusk, prairie winds and dust, ritual dances and spirit songs, and mythic reckonings framed as a red apocalypse. Later cycles portray terraced Pueblo landscapes, potters, corn maidens, and ruined pueblos, while final pieces invoke Aztec gods and cosmology. The language is lyrical and imagistic, alternating intimate observation of natural life with ceremonially inflected reflections on death, renewal, and the drumlike rhythms of the earth.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

TonatiuhFrontispiece
The Sun’s First Ray7
Day and Night13
The Sun’s Last Ray21
Mirage33
The Trail41
The Bird of War51
The Last Song61
The Mummy (Estes Park)71
The Priests (Estes Park)77
Palingenesis83
To a Child’s Moccasin91
The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian97
Earth’s Terraced Bowl—I107
Earth’s Terraced Bowl—II119
The Corn Maidens131
Saint Dominic’s Day—I143
Saint Dominic’s Day—II151
Flower Alone157
The Pottery Peddler165
The Dead Pueblo—I171
The Dead Pueblo—II181
The Dead Pueblo—III187
The Dead Pueblo—IV193
The Dead Pueblo—V199
Tezcatlipoca209
Xochiquetzal215
Quetzalcoatl221
Xiuhtecutli229