Tue, May 03
|Collecte Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
N. Scott Momaday, Dream Drawing, Configurations of a Timeless Kind
CW is proud to host one of the most distinguished and unique voices in American letters, N. Scott Momaday for the launch of his newest poetry collection, Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind - a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit.
Date, Time & Location
May 03, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
Collecte Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and we will live stream the evening on Zoom, please register to watch here.
If you are attending in person, for your safety and those around you, we will be requiring all audience members wear a mask.
Pre-order Dream Drawings online or get your copy in-store (publishing May 3)
A singular voice in American letters, Momaday’s love of language and storytelling are on full display in this brilliant new collection comprising one hundred sketches or “dream drawings”—furnishings of the mind—as he calls them. Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory. Each piece, full of wisdom and wonder, showcases Momaday’s extraordinary lyrical talent, the breadth of his imagination, and the transformative power of his writing. Dream Drawings is also illustrated with a selection of black-and-white paintings by Momaday that capture the spirit of his prose.
Poignant, inspired, and timeless, this is a collection that will nourish the soul.
“Language and the imagination work hand in hand, and together they enable us to reveal us to ourselves in story. That is indeed a magical process. . . . We imagine and we dream, and we translate our dreams into language.” —from the Preface
About the Poet
N. Scott Momaday is an internationally renowned poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller. He won the
Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn and is the recipient of numerous awards
and honors, including the Academy of American Poets Prize, the National Medal of Arts,
the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation's
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Frost Medal for
distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. A longtime professor of English and
American literature, Momaday earned his PhD from Stanford University and retired as
Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.