Dream Drawings
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Dream Drawings

Configurations of a Timeless Kind

N. Scott Momaday

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Dream Drawings

Configurations of a Timeless Kind

N. Scott Momaday

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"[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers."— American Scholar

"Momaday's poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic." — Library Journal (starred review)

From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit.

"Language and the imagination work hand in hand, and together they enable us to reveal us to ourselves in story. That is indeed a magical process.... We imagine and we dream, and we translate our dreams into language." —from the Preface

A singular voice in American letters, Momaday's love of language and storytelling are on full display in this brilliant new collection comprising one hundred sketches or "dream drawings"—furnishings of the mind—as he calls them. Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory. Each piece, full of wisdom and wonder, showcases Momaday's extraordinary lyrical talent, the breadth of his imagination, and the transformative power of his writing. Dream Drawings is also illustrated with a selection of black-and-white paintings by Momaday that capture the spirit of his prose.

Poignant, inspired, and timeless, this is a collection that will nourish the soul.

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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2022
ISBN
9780063218123
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Cover
Title Page
Publisher’s Note
Dedication
Preface
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 of Stone Carrier
Pai-mahtone
Th...

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