The Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians by Alfons L. Korn, Mary Kawena Pukui

The Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians

Alfons L. Korn, Mary Kawena Pukui

252 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction poetry informative slow-paced
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Haina ia mai ana ka puana. This familiar refrain, sometimes translated Let the echo of our song be heard, appears among the closing lines in many nineteenth-century chants and poems. From earliest times, the chanting of poetry served the Hawaiians...

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