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" [Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.8212 American ScholarMomaday's poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic. 8212 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. 8212 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 drawings8212 furnishings of the mind8212 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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Biographisches: " N. Scott Momaday is an internationally renowned poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller whose works celebrate and preserve Native American heritage. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Academy of American Poets Prize, the National Medal of Arts, the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, and the 2021 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. A longtime professor of English and American literature, Momaday earned his PhD from Stanford University and retired as Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. He lives in New Mexico. " Rezension(2): " Publishers Weekly : The 100 poems and short sketches . are as simple and complex as our collective existence. . Each is a small gem, a glass seed that is part of the pattern on a piece of Native beadwork: By itself it has its own character and texture, its own beauty and completeness. Woven or sewn into the pattern created by the artist, the individual beads together anchor the art and become the design that tells the larger story. 8212" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 15, 2022 The iconic Kiowa writer offers an assemblage of parables, poems, vignettes, and a few stark drawings, with the thematic underpinning that all stories are part of a larger universal story. Momaday (b. 1934), winner of a Pulitzer Prize and numerous lifetime achievement awards, is acclaimed for his work as a fiction writer, poet, and essayist, often blurring the boundaries among categories. In this follow-up to Earth Keeper, the author pretty much obliterates those categories, drawing deeply from dreams, fantasies, personal remembrance, and the wellspring of Native American spirituality to dissolve distinctions between the real and the surreal. I have heard the thunder of King Lear's voice on the boards of the Globe Theatre in Elizabethan London, he writes. I was spellbound. Emily Dickinson read to me a poem she had written about crickets in which she realized a precision of statement that defies description. Momaday suggests that if you have dreamed it, you have lived it, and that the you or I of whom you are conscious might itself be a dream. We see these ideas at work in Dreaming Bear Speaks, one of the many short narratives in which bears appear--usually not threatening, sometimes dreaming. Perhaps he dreams of me dreaming of him, writes the author. He dreams of being me, of being human. Night and day, dreams and awakening, fact and fantasy: The boundaries contained therein seem porous throughout these pieces, which combine elements of the fantastical and the matter-of-fact. Despite the title, there aren't that many drawings, and they appear as representational inkblots, suggesting a tree or a crow or a human visage. The illustrations punctuate the narratives and underscore their thematic unity, but the narratives themselves also have a sketchlike quality--drawings with words. Momaday concludes that these pieces are random and self-contained, and they are the stuff of story, and story is a nourishment of the soul. Most spiritually open-minded readers will agree. Bite-size snacks for the metaphysical appetite. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2022 Add another entry of mystical lyrics to the still-expanding oeuvre of prolific Kiowa folklorist, novelist, and illustrator Momaday (The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems, 2020). One hundred short poems serve as dream drawings, snapshots that range from lullaby rhymes (Rather would I gather dreams / And find in dreaming more than meaning seems) to imagined interactions with well-known writers, such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson, who, the speaker claims, read to me a poem she had written about crickets. Some may find these reflections quaint or too subdued, but many unexpected moments await receptive readers. One poem opens with a partially petrified tree that conceals a fracture in the space-time continuum. Another poem recounts a haunted portrait, the image of a round, bald head with / blood red lips over uneven teeth and vacant white eyes, which literally speaks to its creator. Despite the wide variety of subjects addressed over the course of these one hundred oneiric sketches, the book's long view and even pace bring out the best insights of this octogenarian's flourishing career. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from July 1, 2022 A consummate storyteller whose works include many novels, plays, and poems, Pulitzer Prize--winning Kiowa author Momaday follows up 2020's Earth Keeper and The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems with a collection of 100 prose poems along with drawings by the author. Each piece blends seamlessly with what precedes and follows, and readers will find themselves inside the dream of these poems, held under the spell of turning the page. Momaday has created his own mythology here, his own world, stating that language is magical We became human when we acquired language. As they encounter spirits and spirit animals--bears, eagles, and witches--they will also find much wisdom: The story does not end. Rather it revolves on a wheel of telling. Those he pays homage to include Gwendolyn Brooks, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Rumi as he spreads out a meadow./ On a carpet of colors/ I will meet you there. VERDICT Momaday's poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic. Essential for Indigenous collections and highly recommended for poetry lovers generally. --Karla HustonCopyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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