Bulu Line: A West Kimberley Song Cycle

George Dyungayan; Stuart Cooke (ed. and transl.)
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NEW. George Dyu?àÔÇ?gayan was a powerful Nyigina lawman from the Roebuck Plains (east of Broome). Over the course of a life spanning much of the twentieth century, the spirit of his late father visited him in dreams and gave him the seventeen verses of the The Bulu Line. Full of magic and local history, the poems describe journeys with ancestors and spirit beings, encounters with rainbow serpents and ferocious storms, and explore the vast distances of the West Kimberley landscape. A pioneering experiment in contemporary Australian literature, George Dyu?àÔÇ?gayan’s The Bulu Line is the translation of a richly textured oral poetry into printed form. Rather than reduce the songpoetry to short, static lines of verse, Stuart Cooke has assembled a series of startling multi-vocal texts. pp.80 #1220 Aboriginal Australians ISBN 10: 1922186538 ISBN 13: 9781922186539

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AuthorGeorge Dyungayan; Stuart Cooke (ed. and transl.)
PublisherPuncher & Wattmann
Year Published2014
Book Condition

New.

Binding Type

Softcover

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