In the Presence of the Sun (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poetry and short stories
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Tradition, Nature, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying, Rites or ceremonies, Bison or buffalo
This collection contains four main sections, the first twenty-nine previously published works (including the poems “The Bear,” “The Angle of Geese,” and “The Gourd Dancer”) and the last twenty-seven new poems. The middle sections are “The Strange and True Story of My Life with Billy the Kid” (a set of verses written by the nineteen-year-old Navajo-Kiowa shaman named Grey in The Ancient Child) and the shield poems.
Momaday contrasts death in nature with mainstream ideas of death in “Angle of Geese,” pays homage to his grandfather and the traditions by...
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