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Again the far morning : new and selected poems / N. Scott Momaday.

by Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-

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University of New Mexico Press, c2011.

American poetry -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 21st century.

9780826348432 (hc.)

xiii, 136 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

1. Angle of geese, 1974 -- Before an old painting of the crucifixion -- The bea r-- Buteo regalis -- Earth and I gave you turqoise -- Simile -- Plainview I -- The fear of Bo-talee -- The horse that died of shame -- The delight song of Tsoai-talee -- Headwinters -- Rainy Mountain cemetery -- Angle of geese -- 2. The gourd dancer, 1976 -- The colors of night -- The monoliths -- For the old man for drawing dead at eighty-nine -- Abstract : old woman in a room -- The burning -- The wound -- Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu -- The gift -- 3. In the presence of the sun, 1992 -- The gourd dancer -- The stalker -- Long shadows at Dulce -- Crows in a winter composition -- Planned Parenthood -- The great Fillmore Street buffalo drive -- Nous avons vu la mer -- Wreckage -- Old guerre -- The hotel 1829 -- Concession -- Woman waiting on a porch -- Four charms -- Rings of bone -- If it could ascend -- My words do not hold -- Carnegie, Oklahoma, 1919 -- Lawrench ranch -- December 29, 1890 -- Fort Sill -- At risk -- 4. In the bear's house, 1999 -- To an aged bear -- Via dolorosa -- The remembering -- Prayer for words -- The blind astrologers -- Scaffold bear -- Revenant -- Notes on a hunting scene -- Winter solstice at Amoxiumqua -- Meditation on wilderness -- Seven photographs of winter -- The threads of odyssey --

"The oral tradition of the American Indian is very important to me, and it has informed much of my writing. The poem, in the strict sense of the word, does not exist in that tradition, but song and story are indispensable and highly developed. Both are infused with poetic character. Moreover, the song in oral tradition is invested with a belief in the intrinsic power of language. That power is definitive, and it informs the best of poems. My Kiowa father sang and told stories to me from the Kiowa oral tradition from the time I was a young child. That tradition has been largely influential in the determination of my literary voice. My mother, who was predominately English, was a writer, and she gave me a deep love of, and respect for, the English language."--Preface.

From the publisher. 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.

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