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Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024

The gourd dancer : [poems] / N. Scott Momaday ; drawings by the author.

1st ed.

New York : Harper & Row, 1976.

©1976.

64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Momaday draws on various traditions and influences, especially Native American oral tradition, in poems that shift between nature and society, past and present, actuality and legend.

American poetry -- 20th century.

I. Angle of Geese : The Bear ; Buteo Regalis ; Pit Viper ; Comparatives ; Earth and I Gave You Turquoise ; Simile ; Walk on the Moon ; Four Notions of Love and Marriage ; Plainview: 1 ; Plainview: 2 ; Plainview: 3 ; Plainview: 4 ; The Fear of Bo-talee ; The Story of a Well-Made Shield ; The Horse that Died of Shame ; The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee ; Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion ; Headwaters ; Rainy Mountain Cemetery ; Angle of Geese -- II. The Gourd Dancer : The Gourd Dancer ; New World ; The Stalker ; Carriers of the Dream Wheel ; The Eagle-Feather Fan ; The Colors of Night ; The Monoliths ; North Dakota, North Light ; Winter Holding off the Coast of North America ; To a Child Running with Outstretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly ; Long Shadows at Dulce -- III. Anywhere is a Street into the Night : Crows in a Winter Composition ; Anywhere Is a Street into the Night ; For the Old Man Mad for Drawing, Dead at Eighty-nine ; Abstract: Old Woman in a Room ; That Woman and This Woman ; The Burning ; The Wound ; Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu ; Ernesto Maestas Instructs Ynocencia Saavedra in the Art of Acting ; The Gift ; Krasnopresnenskaya Station ; Two Figures.

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