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Poetry

Index of SIL publications on Poetry listed by country.

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General works

• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 1995. "A cryptic chiastic acrostic: Finding meaning from structure in the poetry of Nahum."
• BLIESE, Loren F., author. 1999. "The poetics of Habakkuk."
• BOERGER, Brenda H., author. 1997. Extending translation principles for poetry and biblical acrostics.
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 2010. "From terse to loose: translating Hebrew poetry into Hawai`i Pidgin."  
• HANSFORD, Keir, author. 1995. Review of: Jakobsonian poetics and Slavic narrative: from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn, by Krystyna Pomorska.
• HEIMBACH, Sharon; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1997. On love, laughter, and life, vol. 5: Seasons of life: a complete collection of Kenneth L. Pike poetry.
• HEIMBACH, Sharon; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1997. On pain: Beyond suffering, vol. 1: Seasons of life: a complete collection of Kenneth L. Pike poetry.
• HEIMBACH, Sharon; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1997. On philosophy of life: a kaleidoscope, vol. 2: Seasons of life: a collection of Kenneth L. Pike poetry.
• HEIMBACH, Sharon; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1997. On scholarship and the work: Service and success, vol. 4: Seasons of life: a complete collection of Kenneth L. Pike poetry.
• HEIMBACH, Sharon; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1997. On the Shepherd: Feeding the flock, vol 3: Seasons of life: a complete collection of Kenneth L. Pike poetry.
• KINDELL, Gloria E., author. 1996. Ethnopoetics: finding poetry.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1996. "Requiem for LACUS 1995."
• LUNN, Nick, author. 2004. Word order variation in Biblical Hebrew poetry: the role of pragmatics and poetics in the verbal clause.
• PIKE, Evelyn G., author. 1994. "The higher levels of the phonological structure of a poem."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1984. "Towards the linguistic analysis of one’s own poems."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1987. "Today."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1989. "An ILA tree."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1989. "Waves and spray."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1994. "Too late for them."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1995. "Experimental syntax in language and in music."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1996. "To Dave Thomas."  
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author; HEIMBACH, Sharon, editor. 1997. Seasons of life: a complete collection of Kenneth L. Pike poetry.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• NEELEY, Paul, author. 1994. "Discourse peak and poetic closure in the final stanza of a talking drum performance."

Nigeria

• MOOMO, David O., author. 1993. Hebrew and Ebira poetry.
• STERK, Jan P., author. 1989. "Bible poetry in translation."

Senegal

• NDIONE, Jacques, author. 2000. Hotɗaaroo (Poésie en noon).

Sudan

• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 2005. "Contrastive Analyses of a Beja Song."

Tanzania

• NOSS, Philip A.; RENJU, Peter, authors. 2007. "Mwalimu Nyerere engages his people: Scripture translation in Swahili verse."  

Americas

Guatemala

• JOHNSON, Merieta K., author. 1995. An experiment in Mayan poetry.

Mexico

• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1971. "Implications of the patterning of an oral reading of a set of poems."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1976. "A poem on disconnecting form and meaning."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1987. "Alas for Judas."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1988. "Cultural choice."
• WALLIS, Ethel E., author. 1970. "The trimodal structure of a folk poem."

Peru

• WATERS, Ann, author. 1990. "La composición poética."  
• WISTRAND, Lila, author. 1976. "La poesia de las canciones Cashibos."  

Saint Lucia

• FRANK, David B.; SAMUEL, Peter, authors. 2000. Translating poetry and figurative language into St. Lucian Creole: a paper presented at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, held in Mona, Jamaica, in August, 2000.  

Asia

Nepal

• DALY, Margaret H., author. 1992. Review of: Songs of Nepal: An anthology of Nevar folksongs and hymns, by Siegfried Lienhard.

Pakistan

• BAART, Joan L. G., author. 2004. "Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan)."

Philippines

• GOSCHNICK, Hella E., author. 1989. The poetic conventions of Tina Sambal.
• GOSCHNICK, Hella E., compiler. 1989. Tina Sambal songs and poems.
• LLAVAN, Peregrina A. Rauto, author. 2000. Ginotay-gotay (A collection of poems in Agutaynen, Filipino and English).  
• VILLAROSA, Jonalyn B., author. 2006. "Making literature alive: a closer look at Palaˀisgen, a Tagbanua epic."  

Viet Nam

• BURTON, Eva, author. 1964. "Communication in Vietnamese poetry."

Pacific

French Polynesia

• MEYER, David, author. 2006. "Dating Tahitian oral tradition texts from primarily internal evidence."  

Papua New Guinea

• HOOLEY, Bruce A., author. 1987. "Central Buang poetry."