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Author	María Sabina, 1894-1985.
Title	Selections / María Sabina ; edited by Jerome Rothenberg ; with texts and commentaries by Álvaro Estrada and others.
Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 9	860.8 M	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series	Poets for the millennium ; 2
	Poets for the millennium ; 2.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202).
Contents	The life / written with Álvaro Estrada -- The chants -- The folkways chant -- The 1970 Session: three excerpts -- The mushroom velanda: three excerpts -- Commentaries and derivations -- Introduction to The life of María Sabina / Álvaro Estrada -- From Teo-Nanácatl: the Mushroom agape / Valentina Pavlovna Wasson, R. Gordon Wasson -- The uniqueness of María Sabina / Henry Munn -- María Sabina in Mexico City / Homero Aridjis -- From Fast speaking woman ; Fast speaking woman & the Dakini principle / Anne Waldman -- The little saint of Huautla / Jerome Rothenberg -- The poet speaks, the mountain sings ... ; The song begins / Juan Gregorio Regino.
Note	Translated from the Spanish.
Subject	María Sabina, 1894-1985.
	Mazatec Indians -- Biography.
	Mazateco poetry.
	Mazatec Indians -- Medicine.
	Mazatec Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic -- Mexico.
Genre or Form	Biography.
Added Author	Estrada, Alvaro.
	Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- editor.
	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2015. ZNS
ISBN	0520233603 (alk. paper)
	9780520233607 (alk. paper)
	0520239539 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780520239531 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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