In the Bear's House

by N. Scott Momaday

• ISBN13: 9780312263409
• ISBN10: 0312263406
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-08-18
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his first novel, House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime.Winner of the Oaklahoma Book Award for Poetry, In the Bear's House celebrates Momaday's extraordinary creative vision and evolution as one of our most gifted artists with transcendent dignity and gentleness.

Author Biography

N. Scott Momaday is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Premio Letterario Internazionale "Mondello," Italy's highest literary award. Momaday is a writer, poet, and playwright whose books include The Man Made of Words, House Made of Dawn, and In the Presence of the Sun. He lives in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	5	(4)
Introduction	9	(6)
THE BEAR-GOD DIALOGUES
You Are, Urset. I Am, Yahweh	15	(6)
Berries	21	(4)
Prayer	25	(4)
Dreams	29	(4)
Story	33	(6)
Evolution	39	(3)
Thought	42	(5)
Time	47	(6)
POEMS
The Bear	53	(1)
Scaffold Bear	54	(1)
The Corporeal Bear	55	(1)
A Bear in Bronze	56	(2)
The Blind Astrologers	58	(2)
Prayer for Words	60	(1)
The Print of the Paw	61	(1)
The Remembering	62	(1)
Ursa Major	63	(1)
To an Aged Bear	64	(2)
Tres Campos	66	(3)
Moscow Circus	69	(2)
Notes on a Hunting Scene	71	(1)
Summons	72	(1)
The Khanty Bear Feast	73	(1)
Revenant	74	(2)
Winter Solstice at Amoxiumqua	76	(2)
Meditation on Wilderness	78	(1)
Cave Painting	79	(4)
PASSAGES
The Bear Hunt	83	(8)
The Transformation	91