Description: In these engaging writings Momaday shares his personal quest to understand the spirit of wilderness embodied in the image of Bear.
Brief description:
N. Scott Momaday (1934-2023) was a writer, poet, storyteller, and illustrator who won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, House Made of Dawn. Kiowa by way of Jemez Pueblo, he was the author of the classic Kiowa origin story The Way to Rainy Mountain and several books of poetry, including In the Bear's House, In the Presence of the Sun, and Again the Far Morning (all from UNM Press).
Review Quotes: Tsoai-talee (Rock-Tree Boy) opens the book with a series of Camus-like dialogues between a bear and Yahweh, exploring matters of nature, longing, language, and hunger. . . . A selection of Momaday's poetry over the decades plunges readers into a mystical realm where boys become bears, and a bear is a man, and the man is Momaday.--Kate Nelson, New Mexico Magazine