In the Presence of the Sun Sto

Momaday, N. Scott

ISBN 10: 0312082223 / ISBN 13: 9780312082222

Published by St Martins Pr, 1992

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Seller Inventory # 00098428481

Synopsis:

A collection of stories, poems, and drawings reflect the career of one of America's most distinctive storytellers, whose literary oeuvre both celebrates and mourns the lost world of great native American legends and myths.

Review: "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 "The strong, spare beauty of In the Presence of the Sun is compelling evidence that Scott Momaday is one of the most versatile and distinguished artists in America today." - Peter Matthiessen ".. the images, the voices, the people are shadowy, elusive, burning with invention, like flames against a dark sky. For behind them is always the artist-author himself... a man with a sacred investiture. Strong medicine, strong art indeed." - The New York Times Book Review"

Bibliographic Details

Title: In the Presence of the Sun Sto
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good