María SabinaA shaman and visionary not a poet in any ordinary sense Mara Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimnez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Seeking cures through language with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself she was, as