Henry Peters
Henry Peters
Technicians of the sacred
A review of Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia & Oceania, Collected & Edited by Jerome Rothenberg
Published by Doubleday Anchor, $3.95
A book RE-view
“There’s nothing an anthropologist hates worse than a native”
—Wm. Burroughs
Poetry, rite, shamanistic rituals, criminal dope fiend seers of amazing vision colored w/ the blue stars of tongue hanging prophesy? Color of fire moving at night, thru this field in the kingdom of death. Aztec sacrifice? Cortez loves Motecuzoma. Poly wanna cracker?
Jul 9, 2019 Read the whole text...
Henry Peters
Vietnam Will Win
a review of
Vietnam Will Win by Wilfred Burchett (New York: Guardian Books, 1968)
Everyone should read Vietnam Will Win—including those who have already read Burchett’s earlier books, Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerrilla War (1965) and Vietnam North (1966).
These two works, especially the first, are important as the first successful attempt to introduce the Vietnamese struggle to Americans in human terms. Burchett’s unpretentious accounts of what he saw in NLF territory in late 1964, and his interviews with the people who live and fight there, continue to be more meaningful than all the abstract legal, political and moral arguments put forth by the U.S. left.
Apr 29, 2021 Read the whole text...