Storm, Hyemeyohsts - Storm, Hyemeyohsts
Storm, Hyemeyohsts
Storm, an American Indian, is the author of the novel Seven Arrows.
There are few books that have a genuine hypnotic effect on the reader. Fewer still are those occasions in our reading lives when we come across a work with magical properties so enchanting that we immediately sense that we will be haunted by it the rest of our lives. Seven Arrows, by Hyemeyohsts Storm, is such a book, a novel—the first novel by an American Indian. It is the most extraordinary book I have ever read. I think that it is going to force us to reconsider some of our basic conceptions of American literature. I know that it is going to make us stand up and look at the American Indian artist in a way that we have never regarded him before.
Topographically, the book is unique in itself: almost square in shape, printed in double columns, illustrated by dozens of photographs of animals and of traditional Indian life and nearly a dozen...
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