![]() If you count the Preface and the End Note, which contain writing as lyrical to me as the titled poems, this book contains 108 total pages of transformation, interspersed with stunning abstract ink drawings by Momaday himself.The book opens with a prologue that introduces Abdul, a garbage sorter in the Mumbai slum of Annawadi. What is magic, when is story, where is truth? Traversing the dreamscape from Camelot to a Kiowa Sun Dance, from Mexico to the Arctic, within these fable-like utterances Momaday becomes a pied-piper of the imagination. Which is more real? He teases the reader, questioning notions of true memory and experience, and there is a currency of humor throughout (bears laughing, amused by the concept of themselves). One gets the impression that Momaday’s consciousness is always tethered to a world which for readers is one step beyond - for him, this second world exists in shadow, a visible threshold living in step with our concept of time. Scott Momaday’s Dream Drawings is truly a powerful, soul-filling work of art. To truly fill my daily inner cup with the beauty that is, I seek the poets. I crave that feeling of the heart growing to bursting in my chest, the weightlessness in my gut as a sentence washes over me and makes me shudder in delight. I am reading to find myself drifting into another place, my particularly visual brain tipsy from sensual evocations of landscape, memory, and the air of another sky. “Currently in my reading life, I am attracted to writing which is transportive. ![]() #whatimreading #poetry #shelfawareness #bobbstaffpick #dreamdrawings #nscottmomaday #imagination #dreamworld #magic #memory #experience #fables #consciousness #creativity #innerworld #bookreview #lovetoread #bookworm #moab #backofbeyondbooks #eatreadsleeplocal I highly recommended this work to stoke the creative inner fire!” If you count the Preface and the End Note, which contain writing as lyrical to me as the titled poems, this book contains 108 total pages of transformation, interspersed with stunning abstract ink drawings by Momaday himself. ![]() #backofbeyond #backofbeyondbooks #bobbstaffpick #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #bellhooks #bellhooksquotes #allaboutlove #allaboutlovenewvisions #valentinesday #elevateblackvoices #celebrateblackwomen #lovequotes #bookish #bookstagram #eatreadsleeplocal This book is required reading to my mind, and we are eternally indebted to bell hooks’ work □□” This bleak picture in no way alters the nature of our longing. In the realm of the political, among the religious, in our families, and in our romantic lives, we see little indication that love informs decisions, strengthens our understanding of community, or keeps us together. Everywhere we learn that love is important, and yet we are bombarded by its failure. The strength of our desire does not change the power of our cultural uncertainty. We want to know how to seduce those among us who remain wedded to lovelessness and open the door to their hearts to let love enter. We want to know what it means to love, what we can do in our every day lives to love and be loved. “The below quote from the hooks’ introduction of this book encapsulates what I find so impactful on every reading and rereading of this incredible work: Alyssa’s Pick this week is in honor of Valentine’s Day, but more importantly Black History Month.
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