Octavo, xx, 143 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is brown with red and black print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$17.95". Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and black paper to boards. Illustrated: b&w drawings. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1401215. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Title

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUN : STORIES AND POEMS, 1961-1991 [signed]

Publisher

St. Martin's Press, New York

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0312082223

ISBN 13

9780312082222

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Signed by Author(s)

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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"

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