Flower World Variations (Expanded Edition): A Sequence of Songs from the Yaqui Deer Dance

Poetry. Art. California Interest. Native American Studies. Essay. Hybrid Genre. As part of the Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts series The OS presents FLOWER WORLD VARIATIONS a revised and expanded version of Jerome Rothenbergs variations on a set of traditional Yaqui Indian Deer Dance songs with computer-generated drawings by Harold Cohen one of our truly great pioneer computer artists. Originally published in a modest 1984 offset edition the book is newly enhanced in quality and features an updated introduction by Rothenberg and an excerpt from Cohens writings on the nature of mark-making and meaning/metaphor over a wide range of times and cultures. As such it serves also as a memorial and tribute to Harold Cohen whose recent passing it helps to commemorate. The process of translation is here re-imagined as a new wilderness by Jerome Rothenberg and Harold Cohen in a multilayered composition of poems and computer generated drawings for the human / other-than-human worlds originally composed by the Yaqui poets of Arizona. An oral masterpiece rendered masterfully. A moment to rejoice!&;Cecilia Vicuña