SOURCE: A review of Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti, in The Village Voice, Vol. XV, No. 50, December 10, 1970, pp. 6, 16.

In the following review, Heifetz praises Deren's Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti as a careful and intelligent portrayal of its subject.

Maya Deren's profound, loving study of the Voodoo religion is a very rare kind of book. In it, as in Alexandra David-Neel's books on Tibetan Buddhism, a famous system of practice and belief about the deep psyche and its relation to ultimate reality is portrayed from the inside by a highly intelligent, carefully honest and passionate observer. The Chelsea House edition is a handsome book, illustrated, with big type and nice paper and expensive. It's worth the money if you have it but I hope the book eventually gets into a reasonably priced paperback edition, for the good of all those it can feed at...