María Sabina: Selections [Inscribed by Rothenberg]

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. First edition. Xxi, 204pp. Photo-illustrated wraps. Near fine, with light wear and curling at corners; penciled marginalia throughout (see note). Signed and inscribed by Rothenberg to first leaf: "Review copy for Jacket 08/04."

A work gathering texts by and about Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina (1894-1985), including a biography by Álvaro Estrada, translations of Sabina's chants, and "commentaries & derivations" by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson & R. Gordon Wasson, Henry Munn, Homero Aridjis, Anne Waldman, Jerome Rothenberg, and Juan Gregorio Regino. This copy from the library of French-American poet and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his penciled marginalia throughout. Tarn's review of the book was published in Jacket 25, February 2004. Issued as the second volume in the Poets for the Millenium series.