Showing posts with label MOMADAY N. Scott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOMADAY N. Scott. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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Language is the stuff of the imagination.  The imagination is the creative aspect of language.  It enables us to use language to its high...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

N. Scott Momaday: on stories

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Another quotation from N. Scott Momaday on storytellers and storytelling.  I think there are some ideas expressed in them that wouldn't ...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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The storyteller is the one who tells the story.  To say this is to say that the storyteller is preeminently entitled to tell the story.  He...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

N. Scott Momaday: In the Bear's House, an overview

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N. Scott Momaday In the Bear's House In the Bear's House is a rather unusual work, as will be seen from the Table of Contents I...
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Saturday, January 7, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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We exist in the element of language.  Someone  has said that to think is to talk to oneself.  The implications of this equation are critic...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

N. Scott Momaday and Emily Dickinson

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The following excerpt comes from N. Scott Momaday's The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages.   The chapter title is "A Di...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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The white blossoms of pear trees and the slashes of red earth in the grasses, the brown rivers high and roiling.  The sky is the very blue ...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

N. Scott Momaday: The Ancient Child, a novel

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N. Scott Momaday The Ancient Child As I began reading this work, I was reminded of Momaday's, The Way to Rainy Mountain , which I pos...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

N. Scott Momaday: "The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

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In their own way, poems teach the reader.  Frequently they teach the reader something about the reader, sometimes about the subject of the ...
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Monday, September 1, 2014

N. Scott Momaday: The Bear

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Words are names.  To write a poem is to practice a naming ceremony.               These figures moving in my rhyme,               Who are...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

The 500th

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According to the blog counter, this is my five hundredth post.  When I first began some four years ago, I had no goal or target to shoot at....
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Something to think about

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The native vision, the gift of seeing truly, with wonder and delight into the natural world, is informed by a certain attitude of reverence ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

N. Scott Momaday: The Way To Rainy Mountain

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N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain is a slim volume, less than 100 pages in length. It's a very unusual work, and one ...
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