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The death of Sitting Bear : new and selected poems

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  • Running Time: 02:30 hrs
    Narrator: the author
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Momaday, N. Scott
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    Summary:

    Spanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday's connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape.

    Contents:
    • Bequest
    • In the forest
    • A Siberian hunter, remembrance
    • To the farther camps
    • A darkness comes
    • A hero's burial
    • The Kiowa no-face doll
    • A sloven
    • Alaskan games
    • A modest boast (toast)
    • A note on animals
    • Ago
    • Division
    • The night sky at Coppermine
    • Song fragments
    • For Wallace Stevens
    • The woman looking in
    • Transparency
    • Spectre
    • The great Fillmore streed buffalo drive
    • The snow mare
    • The bone strikers
    • Yahweh to Urset
    • The essence of belonging
    • To an aged bear
    • The bear
    • A benign self-portrait
    • Prayer for words
    • On the cause of a homely death
    • The blind astrologers
    • The pursuit of man by God
    • Revenant
    • Death comes for Beowulf
    • The mythic harpoon
    • Before an old painting of the Crucifixion
    • A silence like frost
    • Angle of geese
    • Birdsong
    • Shade
    • On the neva
    • The whale in amber
    • The dragon of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
    • Nous avons vu la mer
    • A chronicle
    • Before and after
    • The theft of identity
    • A couplet in tongues
    • Dictum
    • Need
    • JFK
    • Song of longing
    • Stones
    • Poem after lunch
    • Approach
    • English, the language
    • A story of light
    • This train
    • War chronicle
    • The rider of two gray hills
    • Visitation at Amherst
    • Fire
    • First poem
    • Meditation on wilderness
    • Olga
    • The galleries
    • Remembering Milosz and "Esse"
    • Death song
    • Dichos
    • A witness to creation
    • Sobremesa
    • Appearances
    • Arrest
    • An oasis there of many colors
    • Afterimage
    • The listener
    • The first day
    • Revision of the plains
    • A blooming of appearances
    • Sweetgrass
    • Rustic dream
    • Severance
    • Seasonal
    • Rough rider
    • Almost love
    • On spring in the Alexander gardens
    • This morning the whirling wind
    • A century of impressions
    • The death of sitting bear
    • Note (on Set-t'an calendar entry)
    • Set-t'an calendar entry
    • Susquehanna
    • Pigments
    • Linguist
    • Dancers on the beach
    • Ultimas
    • The spheres
    • A presence in the trees
    • On the stair
    • Lines for my daughter
    • There came a ghost
    • Nenets
    • A measure of rain
    • La tierra del encanto
    • To Gaye
    • Jornada del muerto
    • Octave
    • Yellow the land and sere
    • The window through which the light of a candle glowed
    • Torrent
    • Reconciliation
    • A mythology of belief
    • Northern dawn
    • The pilgrims
    • Babushka
    • A woman walking
    • Seams
    • Gamesmen
    • Prairie hymn.
    Genre:
    Poetry
    Subject(s): Indigenous peoples--North America | POETRY / Haiku | POETRY / Native American | POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General | POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature | Poetry | Satank
    Original Publisher: [New York], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781094116105, 1094116106, 9781094116112, 1094116114
    Collection(s)/Series: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Collection