WORLD VOICES
AN INTERNATIONAL CHAPBOOK SERIES OF PROSE & POETRY
BY NEW AND ESTABLISHED WRITERS

EDITED BY WALTER CUMMINS & THOMAS E. KENNEDY

Contents

Introduction
About the Author
Creation Myth
Playing Hide-and-Seek
    with Raven

The Indian Prophet
On Feet of Clouds
Song of the Rain
Prayer Singer
Zen Raven
A Sufficient Wisdom
Loonsong
Raven's Trans-Species
    Love Song

Squirrel Man
Muskrat Woman
Mountain Smoke

World Voices Home

The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol



The Language Raven Gave Us





Bilingual poems from the Ahtna Athabaskan,
one of the most endangered languages in the world




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Written & Translated by

John E. Smelcer