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What makes me dive in headfirst
By
Robert Moss
Among the Inuit, the strongest shamans are also the most gifted poets. One of the reasons their spirit helpers flock around them is that they are charmed and exhilarated by the angakok’s poetic improvisations. The Inuit say that we need “fresh words” to attract help from the spirit world. The spirits get bored with us,…
Take the plunge into the sea of dreams
By
Robert Moss
Among the Inuit, the strongest shamans are also the most gifted poets. One of the reasons spirit helpers flock around an angakok is that they are charmed and exhilarated by the shaman’s poetic improvisations. Inuit shamans have a language of their own, which is often impenetrable to other Eskimos. It is a language that is…
Secrets of creation: Be ready for the flood
By
Robert Moss
Stefania Pandolfo’s beautiful, polyphonic Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory (University of Chicago Press) evokes the landscapes – imaginal more than physical – of rural Moroccan villagers for whom dreaming and poetry are vitally important, and always interweaving. “Poetry is always the result of flooding”, a younger poet tells her.…
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