Famous Eskimos Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Voznesensky, Andrei
...pale as blotter,
like a black hawk, or pumping hose,
the nose absorbs us, I suppose.
They say, the Northern Eskimos
kiss one another with the nose
It hasn't caught on here, of course.
© Copyright Alec Vagapov's translation...Read more of this...
by
Bradley, George
...nearly indistinguishable,
generals at the heads of minute armies
differing little from fishwives,
emperors the same as eskimos
huddled under improvisations of snow--
eskimos, though, now have the advantage,
for it seems to be freezing there, a climate
which might explain the population's
outr? dress, their period costumes
of felt and silk and eiderdown,
their fur concoctions stuffed with straw
held in place with flexible strips of bark,
and all to no avail, the midgets fore...Read more of this...
by
Brautigan, Richard
...hore, wild flowers and dark fins pressed against
the paper.
PRELUDE TO THE
MAYONNAISE CHAPTER
"The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have
single word for ice. " --Man: His First Million Years
M. F. Ashley Montagu
"Human language is in some ways similar to, but in other
ways vastly different from, other kinds of animal communi-
cation. We simply have no idea about its evolutionary history,
though many people have speculate...Read more of this...
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