Magic Words: From the Ancient Oral Tradition of the Inuit - Softcover

Magic Words describes a world where humans and animals share bodies and
languages, where the world of the imagination mixes easily with the physical. It
began as a story that told how the Inuit people came to be and became a legend
passed from generation to generation. In translation it grew from myth to poem.
The text comes from expedition notes recorded by Danish explorer Knud
Rasmussen in 1921. Edward Field got a copy from the Harvard Library and
translated it into English.

Unknown author. The translator is Edward Field. In the 1960s he was asked to
translate a book of Inuit Eskimo poems for a teaching program. He received many
honors for his poetry and toured the country reading at universities as well as The
Library of Congress. He lives in New York City with his blind partner with whom he
has collaborated on several novels under their pseudonym Bruce Elliot.