The Gourd Dancer
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 64pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 bright orange cloth, with matching paper over boards. Lower third of front endpaper lightly glue-stained along the hinge. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with multiple small areas of abrasion to the surface, and a 1/2" closed tear to the bottom edge. Very Good + / very good. Item #71203
ISBN: 0060129824
Drawings by the author. This copy is signed by Momaday on the title page.
At last Momaday has collected his poems in a volume that shows the full range of his extraordinary lyrical talent. Momaday draws on a rich body of traditions and influences that produce a poetry quite outside contemporary trends in American verse. The presence of the oral tradition is especially pronounced here; Momaday's poems virtually demand to be read aloud. These poems reverberate with a strong, deep music in the way that Biblical language does. They demonstrate beautifully that Momaday is a writer of major distinction, in poetry as well as fiction.
-- From Publisher.
Price: $200.00