N. Scott Momaday 1934 - 2024.

Navarre Scott Momaday, poet and novelist, has passed.
https://apnews.com/article/native-writer-scott-momaday-dead-1b6690dfa0bb11eda12f3c219cee77e8

' N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel “House Made of Dawn” is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89.

Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health.'

Momaday's life in photos at The Oklahoman.
https://www.oklahoman.com/picture-gallery/news/2024/01/29/scott-momaday-dies-oklahoma-author-pulitzer-winner-photos/72399953007/

'New World' - poem read by the author.
https://voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62944

NEW WORLD

New World
N. Scott Momaday

First Man,
behold:
the earth
glitters
with leaves;
the sky
glistens
with rain.
Pollen
is borne
on winds
that low
and lean
upon
mountains.
Cedars
blacken
the slopes‐‐
and pines.

At dawn
eagles
hie and
hover
above
the plain
where light
gathers
in pools.
Grasses shimmer
and shine.
Shadows
withdraw
and lie
away
like smoke.

At noon
turtles
enter
slowly
into
the warm
dark loam.
Bees hold
the swarm.
Meadows
recede
through planes
of heat
and pure
distance.

At dusk
the gray
foxes
stiffen
in cold;
blackbirds
are fixed
in the
branches.
Rivers
follow
the moon,
the long
white track
of the
full moon.