Author: Chiarini, Arupa
Title: The Ancestors Are Calling Down the Rainbow
Description: Carl Mautz Publishing 1999, Paperback. . 1887694099 Healing of the mind is often accomplished through the retrieval of traumatic information from a person's past. In our day, such healing is the domain of psychology. In older cultures, however, it was the province of the shaman who reached the past through the voices of the person's ancestors. In this inspired cycle of poems, Arupa Chiarini shares her personal healing in the voices of her ancestors, accessed through rituals learned from two Yoruba priests. Beginning with the voice of infant Sarah Teft, who died in 1620 in Massachusetts at age two, Arupa stitches a pattern of a troubled family, generation after generation, leading finally to her own tragic childhood. The cycle of poems and healing is completed in the voice of Arupa's infant sister, Edith Susan, who died by family violence at age one when Arupa was three years old. Fine.

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