{"product_id":"in-the-presence-of-the-sun-stories-and-poems-1961-1991-9780826348166","title":"In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Presence of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new poems that utilize primary colors ('forms of the earth') to express instinctive continuities of a pre-Columbian vision.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The strong, spare beauty of In the Presence of the Sun is compelling evidence that Scott Momaday is one of the most versatile and distinguished artists in America today.\"--Peter Matthiessen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . the images, the voices, the people are shadowy, elusive, burning with invention, like flames against a dark sky. For behind them is always the artist-author himself . . . a man with a sacred investiture. Strong medicine, strong art indeed.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unm Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826348166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Oklahoma Book Award - Finalist","brand":"N. Scott Momaday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445614280885,"sku":"9780826348166","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9f5df031-2f8f-4deb-84aa-e1e1b57e358b.jpg?v=1753799204","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-the-presence-of-the-sun-stories-and-poems-1961-1991-9780826348166","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}