In the following essay, Hirsch conveys a connection between the "oral tradition" and the "written word" in "Storyteller."
"I was never tempted to go to those things . . . ," said Leslie Marmon Silko of the old BAE reports ". . . I . . . don't have to because from the time I was little I heard quite a bit. I heard it in what would be passed now off as rumor or gossip. I could hear through all that. I could hear something else, that there was a kind of continuum. . . ." That continuum provides both the structural and thematic basis of Storyteller. Comprised of personal reminiscences and narratives, retellings of traditional Laguna stories, photographs, and a generous portion of her previously published short fiction and poetry, this multigeneric work lovingly.....
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