The Sun is a Wandering Hunter by James Mcgrath

The Sun is a Wandering Hunter by James Mcgrath

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 gesture, image and sound meld to convey a reality as fresh as it is ancient. James McGrath lives in an old adobe house in the traditional village of La Cieneguilla, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is known for his narrative poetry in the KAET/PBS American Indian Artist Series of the 1970s. James was creative writing instructor and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the early 1960s and spent twenty years teaching and as Arts and Humanities Coordinator for the Department of Defense Overseas Schools in Europe and the Far East. He was Poet-artist in Residence with the US Information Service, Arts America, in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Republic of Congo in the 1990s. His collections of poetry, At the Edgelessness of Light, Speaking with Magpies, Dreaming Invisible Voices, and Valentines and Forgeries are all published by Sunstone Press.

In the 1970s, poet, visual artist, and teacher James McGrath was noted for his narrative poetry in the KAET/PBS American Indian Artist Series. In the 1990s, he worked as a poet-artist-in-residence for the US Information Service and Arts America in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his 50-year retrospective as an artist was presented at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco in 2002. McGrath is the author of several Sunstone Press poetry volumes. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico's La Cieneguilla neighborhood.

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ISBN 13	9781632930330
ISBN 10	1632930331
Title	The Sun is a Wandering Hunter
Author	James Mcgrath
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sunstone Press
Year published	2014-11-12
Number of pages	98
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