Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

by Natachee Scott Momaday (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

This first book of Momaday's 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.

Author Biography

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).