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Dennis Tedlock is Distinguished Professor of English and Anthropology at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
"This translation of Rabinal Achi is poetry. What is even more
remarkable is the accessibility...the time travel, if you will,
through a scholar's work to hear the poetic voices and the poetry
from another time."--The Santa Fe New Mexican
"I am struck, as always with Tedlock's work, by the extraordinary
nature of what he's done. This isn't a mere translation but an
entirely new way of presenting an ancient text. And the text itself
opens the theater and the literature of the Americas as never
before."--Jerome Rothenberg, Poet
"Dennis Tedlock brings both the authority of a scholar and the
perception of a poet to this primal text of human imagination and
conflict. In Professor Tedlock's exceptionally sensitive
translation, together with his extensive notes and commentary,
Rabinal Achi, a surviving drama of Mayan culture prior to the
advent of the Europeans, is given a timeless witness and
actuality."--Robert Creeley, Poet
"Man of Rabinal, Lord Five Thunder, Eagle, Jaguar, and Cawek dance
and speak in lightening and thunder! Listen, hear, see without and
within Sky and Earth! The Mayan voice is always its own and, yet,
too your voice and my voice is OUR voice in the voice of Rabinal
Achi."--Simon J. Ortiz, Writer, Poet, Author of Out There
Somewhere, Woven Stone
"This translation of Rabinal Achi is poetry. What is even more
remarkable is the accessibility...the time travel, if you will,
through a scholar's work to hear the poetic voices and the poetry
from another time."--The Santa Fe New Mexican
"I am struck, as always with Tedlock's work, by the extraordinary
nature of what he's done. This isn't a mere translation but an
entirely new way of presenting an ancient text. And the text itself
opens the theater and the literature of the Americas as never
before."--Jerome Rothenberg, Poet
"Dennis Tedlock brings both the authority of a scholar and the
perception of a poet to this primal text of human imagination and
conflict. In Professor Tedlock's exceptionally sensitive
translation, together with his extensive notes and commentary,
Rabinal Achi, a surviving drama of Mayan culture prior to the
advent of the Europeans, is given a timeless witness and
actuality."--Robert Creeley, Poet
"Man of Rabinal, Lord Five Thunder, Eagle, Jaguar, and Cawek dance
and speak in lightening and thunder! Listen, hear, see without and
within Sky and Earth! The Mayan voice is always its own and, yet,
too your voice and my voice is OUR voice in the voice of Rabinal
Achi."--Simon J. Ortiz, Writer, Poet, Author of Out There
Somewhere, Woven Stone
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