MEDITATIONS After the Bear Feast: The Poetic Dialogues of N. Scott Momaday and Yuri Vaella
Jun 2016 · Shanti Arts Publishing
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This important engaging book records the first acquaintance of poets from American Indian and Native Siberian cultures as they come to recognize their similar cultures, life-ways, and reverence for the natural world. The poetic dialogues contain a mutual recognition of kinsmen across centuries of mutual isolation. Perhaps their chief value is the declaration of fundamental human values, expressing the authors’ deepest aspirations as spokesmen for traditional cultures. As Alexander Vashchenko concludes in his commentary, “This poetic calling-forth offers an important lesson to all of us who live from day to day, with confused priorities, without a thought to eternity; who forsake our original nature—our distant, ancient kinsman, the Bear, that mighty spirit of Mother Nature and powerful symbol of our enormous, universal nation.” The Foreword, Afterword, supplementary notes, and Editor’s Note limn the historical and biographical background that make this text a world’s first, inspiring a call for future intercontinental collaborations of indigenous writers. Contributors include Nathan Romero, Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Claude Clayton Smith, Alexander Vashchenko, James Walter, and Andrew Wiget.
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N. Scott Momaday [Kiowa] — Poet, prose writer, essayist, dramaturg, and graphic artist. He was awarded the National Medal of the Arts in 2007 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. He is an adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Yuri Vaella [Aisaveda] (1948 – 2013)— Reindeer herder, poet and prose writer, and political activist. He was of the Forest Nenets people of western Siberia. His work has been translated into a variety of European and Eastern languages.
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