An Audio Guide to Poetry Recitation - 19. N. Scott Momaday remem

An Audio Guide to Poetry Recitation - 19. N. Scott Momaday remembers his parents


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[Voice of N. Scott Momaday] I grew up in a very creative household. My mother was a writer, and she was always reading aloud to me. So I heard poetry when I was very small. My father was a painter, an Indian, a full blood Kiowa. And he used to tell me stories from Kiowa oral tradition. And I used to hear him speak in Kiowa, even though I didn't understand it. I was very impressionable and those things stayed with me. They have stayed with me throughout my life. Those early sounds of Kiowa and of the music of poetry.