The Road to the Spring: Collected Poems of Mary Austin

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments • vii Abbreviations • ix A Note on the Texts • xi A Modern Chisera • 1 Part One. Book Publications • 21 The American Rhythm, 1923 • 23 Amerindian Songs Re-expressed from the Originals • 25 Songs in the American Manner • 72 The American Rhythm, 1930 • 109 Amerindian Songs Re-expressed from the Originals • 113 Magic Formulas from the Cherokee • 130 Tribal Lays • 138 The Children Sing in the Far West, 1928 • 145 Songs of the California Coast • 149 Mountain Songs • 168 Songs of the Southwest • 185 All Outdoors • 204 Tribal Wisdom • 216 Songs for Occasions • 232 Songs the Indians Sing • 252 Part Two. Magazine and Periodical Publications • 267 Part Three. Unpublished Poems and Fragments • 345 vi Selected Bibliography • 427 Index of Titles • 429 Index of First Lines • 433 ...