Haida

Cultural Lifelines and Individual Artistry: An Interview with Robert Bringhurst

Cultural Lifelines and Individual Artistry: An Interview with Robert Bringhurst

In 1999, Robert Bringhurst—polyglot translator, poet, and typographic authority—published A Story as Sharp as a Knife, a book about Haida myths and mythtellers. Bringhurst retranslates the work of several Haida poets using century-old transcriptions from anthropologist John Swanton.