The Blue God : an epic of Mesa Verde
Type
Book
Authors
Louis Mertins ( Mertins, Louis )
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1968
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Zuni -- Poetry
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Abstract
"The author has written an epic poem based on the legends of the Zuni Indians who inhabited parts of Colorado seven centuries ago.
The subject matter first impressed Louis Mertins more than forty years ago when, as a lecturer, his travels first took him to the Indian ruins at Aztec, New Mexico and Mesa Verde, Colorado. Questions came to him there that only his imagination and a lifetime study of world civilizations might help to answer.
Who were the people who had lived there? What was their culture? From where had they come and what caused them to leave? In the poem, he has reconstructed the civilization that once took place in those ancient villages.
About the streets of Mesa Verde there comes a sound of moving life. Little children once more play their games. Women bake bread, grind corn, weave carpets. Love comes to a man and a maid. Brightly glow the council fires. The ambitions and hopes of a people who worshipped the Blue God come alive through the medium of the poet's words.
Author Louis Mertins has been writing and publishing books and poetry since 1919. Poet Robert Frost was the subject of two of his published works, the most recent in 1965, Life and Talks-Walking."--Book jacket.
The subject matter first impressed Louis Mertins more than forty years ago when, as a lecturer, his travels first took him to the Indian ruins at Aztec, New Mexico and Mesa Verde, Colorado. Questions came to him there that only his imagination and a lifetime study of world civilizations might help to answer.
Who were the people who had lived there? What was their culture? From where had they come and what caused them to leave? In the poem, he has reconstructed the civilization that once took place in those ancient villages.
About the streets of Mesa Verde there comes a sound of moving life. Little children once more play their games. Women bake bread, grind corn, weave carpets. Love comes to a man and a maid. Brightly glow the council fires. The ambitions and hopes of a people who worshipped the Blue God come alive through the medium of the poet's words.
Author Louis Mertins has been writing and publishing books and poetry since 1919. Poet Robert Frost was the subject of two of his published works, the most recent in 1965, Life and Talks-Walking."--Book jacket.
Description
256 pages : 24 cm.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 32095 | PS3525.E7172 | 1 | Yes |