Poetry reading featuring N. Scott Momaday (Audio)

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Description
  • N. Scott Momaday poetry reading at Duff's Restaurant. Recording Index: 00:00 Momaday's own intro; 00:55 Intro to his epitaphs; 02:24 Planned Parenthood; 02:49 The Minor Writer; 03.08 "He Drove Himself" [untitled]; 03:25 On Chastity; 03:44 Intro to crow charms series; 04:35 "When We Hear the Rustling of the Leaves" [untitled]; 05:08 "My Child" [untitled]; 05:34 "The Bear is Coming" [untitled]; 05:58 "At the Very Sight" [untitled]; 06:15 "The Wind is Cold"; 06:41 intro to Scaffold Bear; 07:37 Scaffold Bear; 08:57 Intro to The Man Made of Words; 11:29 The Man Made of Words (selected parts) essay; 23:45 The Way to Rainy Mountain [excerpt]; 26:33 Introduction to Set; 28:30 Set fiction; 29:55 Other remarks on Set; 32:28 Set [continued]; 46:28 ending remarks by Jan
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Funder
  • Funding provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Access to Historical Records grant
Publisher
  • Washington University in St. Louis
Source
  • mp3 edited access file was created from unedited access file which was sourced from preservation WAV file that was generated from original audio cassette.
Language
  • English
Identifier
  • CASS.629
Series
  • River Styx at Duff's
  • River Styx Archive (MSS127), 1973-2001
  • River Styx PM Series
Note
  • The Man Made of Words is slightly different from the published version (I searched up the piece online--the title is unmentioned in this reading); "Set" later published in In The Bear's House as "The Transformation" (subtitle Kiowa Story of Tsoai) (I searched this piece online); All readings after Scaffold Bear are fiction; audio is cut for a few seconds at 45:58
Extent
  • 00H46M46S
Description standard
Publication place
  • St. Louis, Missouri
Date issued
  • 1984-10-21T00:00:00Z
Collection
Visibility Open Access
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