JOHN BIERHORST is the author of thirty-five books on the Native literature of the Americas, including Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs; A Nahuatl-English Dictionary; History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca; Mythology of the Lenape: Guide and Texts; and Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions. He lives in West Shokan, New York.

On the Translation of Aztec Poetry
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Guide to the Vocabulary
71

The Text in Nahuatl and in English
80

Part 2
115

XXIXA 1A You paint with flowers with songs
149

Commentary
163

Concordance to Proper Nouns
189

Verbs Particles and Common Nouns
204

Corrections for the Cantares Edition
211

Bibliography
221

"John Bierhorst is one of the few contemporary scholars with the skill to produce a transcription of the Romances, translate them, and interpret them... His new translation will be of inestimable value to Nahuatl scholars in the United States... He has boldly and skillfully offered us a very useful interpretation of the songs' meaning."