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Format:
Book
Title:
Always coming home
ISBN:
9780060155452

9780060960230

9780060154561

9780520227354
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper & Row, ©1985.
Physical Description:
523 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
A first note -- The quail song -- Towards an archaeology of the future -- Stone telling, part one -- The serpentine codex -- Chart of the nine houses -- Where it is -- Pandora worries about what she is doing: the pattern -- Some stories told aloud one evening... -- Shahugoten -- The keeper -- Dried mice -- Dira -- Poems, first section -- How to die in the valley -- Pandora sitting by the creek -- Four romantic tales -- The miller -- Lost -- The brave man -- At the springs of Orlu -- Poems, second section -- Four histories -- Old women hating -- A war wth the pig -- People -- The town of Chumo -- The trouble with the cotton people -- Pandora worrying about what she is doing: she addresses the reader with agitation -- Time and the city -- The city -- A hole in the air -- Big man and little man -- Beginnings -- Time in the valley -- Stone telling, part two -- Dramatic works -- A note on the valley stage -- The wedding -- Night at Chukulmas -- The shouting man, the red woman, and the bears -- Tabetupah -- The plumed water -- Chandi -- Pandora, worrying about what she is doing, finds a way into the valley through the scrub oak -- Dancing the moon -- Poems, third section -- Eight life stories -- The train -- She listens -- Junco -- The bright void of the wind -- White tree -- The third child's story -- The dog at the door -- The visionary: the life story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-na -- Some brief valley texts -- Pandora converses with the archivist of the library of the Madrone Lodge at Wakwaha-na -- Dangerous people ; A note about the novel ; Chapter two ; Pandora gently to the gentle reader -- Stone telling, part three -- Messages concerning the condor -- About a meeting concerning the warriors -- Poems, fourth section -- From the people of the houses of earth in the valley -- The back of the book -- Long names of houses -- Some of the other people of the valley -- Animals of the Obsidian -- Animals of the Blue Clay -- Kinfolk -- Lodges, societies, arts -- What they wore in the valley -- What they ate -- Kesh musical instruments -- Maps -- The world dance -- The sun dance -- About the train -- Some notes on medical practices -- A treatise on practices -- Playing -- Some generative metaphors -- Three poems by Pandora -- Living on the coast, energy, and dancing -- Love -- Written Kesh -- Alphabet and pronunciation -- The modes of earth and sky -- A note and a chart concerning narrative modes -- Spoken and written literature -- Pandora no longer worrying -- Glossary -- Kesh numbers -- Stammersong.

Tonband-Kompaktkassette Music and poetry of the Kesh / Todd Barton.
Summary:
"Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling," this is an "interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music ... [which tells of] the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast."--Cover of U. of California Press pbk. ed.
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