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Title: In Vain I Tried to Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics by Dell H. Hymes, Dell Hymes ISBN: 0-8032-7343-6 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Comment: This book is groundbreaking. It collects several of Hymes' articles in one place. Important articles like Breakthrough into Performance are present and expanded. Anyone interested in the poetry of Native American verbal art should read this book. Hymes is at pains to show that a close (linguistically motivated) analysis of Native American verbal art reveals much of that poetry (whether it be the structuring of intitial particles or the uses of sound symbolism). However, for all that is important about Hymes' commentary, the most important feature is the the stories he presents. Vicoria Howard's 'Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There' (in Chapter 8) is a modern classic. This is an important book for linguists, Native Americanists, anthropologists, and folklorists and is widely influential. It is a pity that it is currently out of print. Shame on the University of Pennsylvania Press.