Voicing the Moment: Improvised Oral Poetry and Basque Tradition (Paperback)

Edited by Samuel G. Armistead and Joseba Zulaika.

Presents contributions of leading scholars to the field of orally improvised poetry. Includes papers on Hispanic and extra-Hispanic improvised poetry as well as papers in which leading practitioners of bertsolaritza studied their own poetic art and its techniques.

432 pages; photos; index. Paper, $24.95 (ISBN 1-877802-55-7).