The Oral Tradition of Bear Wolf

It's been tremendously beneficial reading five or six different versions of Bear Wolf in quick succession because it is actually quite difficult to penetrate, right? Andrew. One of the interesting things I found was that kind of throws it back into the idea of the oral tradition. It comes to us written down, but it's fundamentally an oral document,. The text is a record of something which had been passed down orally. Yeah. So, Bear Wolf is a book about books. And the Bear Wolf poet is deeply invested in storytelling, how you can tell an old story from the past to relate to a present moment and think about it differently. Yes. That's what he means when he says 'Bear Wolf

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