The Sun Is a Wandering Hunter
This collection is born from James McGrath's decades-long friendship with the Hopi and particularly with his collaborator, the artist Otellie Loloma. Rather than a memoir or narrative detailing external events, these poems are an inner testimony, enacted through rhythmic lyrics that lead us to a mythic place, a world redolent with meaning. These poems, then, are really songs, songs emerging from a primordial source. McGrath holds close to that source, achieving a timeless wholeness, a kind of ritual purification through language. Mimetic of the sacred, McGrath's poems or songs begin to dance. The page becomes a dancing place, a plaza where ge…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63293-033-0
- EAN: 9781632930330
- Produktnummer: 17146331
- Verlag: Sunstone Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 98 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.5 cm 156 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 156
Über den Autor
James McGrath is known for his narrative poetry in the KAET/PBS American Indian Artist Series in the 1970s. He was poet-artist-in-residence with the United States Information Service, Arts America in Yemen, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of the Congo in the 1990s and his fifty year retrospective as artist was held at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco in 2002. He lives in La Cieneguilla, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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