N. Scott Momaday - October 31, 1974

Date
Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday reads poems and prose that would go on to appear in The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991 (1992), The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (1997), and The Ancient Child (1989), as well as two unpublished poems.

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Track Title
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Description

Introduction by Buzz Poverman.

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"1. The Omen"
Description

from "The Gourd Dancer"; differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"2. The Dream"
Description

from "The Gourd Dancer"

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"3. The Dance"
Description

from "The Gourd Dancer"; differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"4. The Giveaway"
Description

from "The Gourd Dancer"

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"New World"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"Long Shadows at Dulce"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"Carriers of the Dream Wheel"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"The Eagle-Feather Fan"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"The Colors of Night"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"Riding Is an Exercise of the Mind"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Track Title
"Billy the Kid, His Rocking Horse: A Lullaby"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"The Man in Black"
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"The Wound"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"The Girl at the Doll House"
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"Billy's Boast to an Old Woman at San Patricio"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"He Encounters a Player at Words"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"He Would Place a Chair for Sister Blandina"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"The Dying Cowboy"
Description

Portions of this text later appear in two different works: "Dreaming In Place" (from [i]The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages[/i]) and [i]The Ancient Child[/i].

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.Momaday, N. Scott. The Ancient Child. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

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"Trees and Evening Sky"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"He Foresees Disaster in a Dream" and "He Enters Upon the Afternoon of His Last Day"
Description

Published version of "He Foresees Disaster in a Dream" bears the title "He Foretells Disaster in a Dream."

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"Billy the Kid, the Departure of His Soul, 13-14 July 1881"
Description

Published version bears the title "Billy the Kid, the Departure of His Soul, 14 July 1881."

Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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"Wide Empty Landscape with a Death in the Foreground"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Track Title
"Crows in a Winter Composition"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"Anywhere Is a Street into the Night"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"The Burning"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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Track Title
"For the Old Man Mad for Drawing, Dead at Eighty-nine"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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"Drawn In Legions of Light"
Description

Unpublished.

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Track Title
"Bibi-Khanym Mosque"
Description

Unpublished.

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Track Title
"Plainview: 2"
Citation

Momaday, N. Scott. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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Question and Answer Session
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Image
N. Scott Momaday
Photographer
LaVerne Harrell Clark
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