Author:
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : Harper Perennial, [2022]
Descriptionxiii, 106 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:The original storyteller -- On dreaming -- Centaur -- To hold the sun -- The scop -- The spiritual gravity of place -- The realization of nothing -- Guests -- The moonlight passage -- The speech -- To Mrs. Charles T. Bucket of Greenfield, Massachusetts -- The visitors -- The capture -- The close -- The dark amusement of bears -- The shadow of a name -- Landscape with clouds -- The birthright -- A mantra -- Observations -- Ownership --- Song of the journey -- Configurations of a timeless kind -- Beat the drum slowly -- Dreaming bear speaks -- Merger -- Time and essence -- Chivalry -- The night dance -- A spell for setting out -- An act of mercy -- The woman who held sway -- To speak of nothing -- The mask -- The hollow log -- In the telling -- The woman at the glass door -- On the imagination -- Passage -- The shield that came home -- The zebra report -- The marrowbone manuscript -- A profound evasion -- Witches -- The ice woman -- The visions if stone carrier -- Pai-mahtone -- The shape shifter -- Belief -- On horseback he sings -- The instrument -- Alexander and Bucephalus -- The poet's muse -- The hat -- The shout -- The meadow -- The octupus dreaming -- Arfig the witch -- The explorer -- Prints -- A dream of becoming old -- A stroke upon the earth -- Miss O'Keefe of Abiquiu -- The whisperer -- The death of beauty -- Transparency -- Shadow -- Prayer to the sun -- Banter -- The breath of the infinite -- Through a lens of cold -- The green stick -- The ghost of Adam Meagre -- Confusion -- The intruder -- To a child this gift -- The tyranny of time -- Blood memory -- Imposture -- Handprints -- The portrait of Spencer Kohl -- Crows -- The burning -- A stone for singing -- One hunter -- The efficacy of prayer -- The ultimate dream -- A moral equation in art -- Forewarned -- Madness -- Facets of discourse -- Sunrise -- The wall -- A woman's voice -- The child's discovery -- The griever -- The whirlwind -- The reading -- The piano teacher -- World renewal.
Note:"From Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday, a collection of 100 new prose poems, rooted in Native American oral tradition, along with 5-7 pieces of art by the author."-- Provided by publisher.
