Pursued By A Bear: Talks, Monologues and Tales
$23.95
A wide-ranging collection from prize-winning First Nations dramatist and poet Daniel David Moses: 18 essays and talks exploring the nature of story telling, the possibilities of a “collective past,” tricksters, “medicine shows,” and those stalking ghosts who have pale faces.
“Moses’ voice is firm and assured, but oddly hard to define, combining a loose colloquial sprawl and a pared-down tenseness with a mythic imagination and an everyday chattiness. He writes in a world in which everything is not only possessed of consciousness, but seems engaged in thoughtful consideration of itself.” —Margaret Helwig, Books in Canada
Daniel David Moses is a registered Delaware Indian, who was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm on the Six Nations lands located on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He has written numerous plays such as The Indian Medicine Shows, Big Buck City, Brébeuf’s Ghost and Coyote City which was a finalist nominated for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama; books of poetry including Sixteen Jesuses; and a collection of essays, Pursued by A Bear. He holds an Honours B.A. from York University and a M. F. A. from the University of British Columbia. Daniel participated in the 2004 Adelaide Festival Writers Week in South Australia and the Neva Book Forum in St. Petersburgh in the Russian Republic. He has also been Poet in Residence for Myty, Ktere Nas Spojuji/ Myths That Unite Us, the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Island Theatre Project with productions in Prague Czechoslovakia and Toronto, Manitoulin Island and Montreal Canada. Currently, he teaches at Queen’s University Drama Department in Kingston, Ontario and pursues independent writing projects.
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