Book description
Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and
drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first
book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far
Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best
from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974),
The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun
(1992), and In the Bear's House (1999).
To read Momaday's poems from the last forty years is to understand
that his focus on Kiowa traditions and other American Indian myths is
further evidence of his spectacular formal accomplishments. His early
syllabic verse, his sonnets, and his mastery of iambic pentameter are
echoed in more recent work, and prose poetry has been part of his
oeuvre from the beginning. The new work includes the elegies and
meditations on mortality that we expect from a writer whose career has
been as long as Momaday's, but it also includes light verse and
sprightly translations of Kiowa songs.
N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for his
novel
House Made of Dawn.
Several of his books are available from UNM Press, including
The Way
to Rainy Mountain
. He lives in Santa Fe.
