In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems
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Document Type
Book
Description
"In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new poems that utilize primary colors ('forms of the earth') to express instinctive continuities of a pre-Columbian vision."--Library Journal
Publication Date
1992
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
City
New York
State
NY
Award
2019 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | Poetry
Repository Citation
Momaday , N. S. (1992). In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
