Dream Drawings

Configurations of a Timeless Kind

N. Scott Momaday

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Année: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780063218123
• Sujet: Literature
• Sous-sujet: Poetry

"[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.

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...