The last kind of dreams are what I call creative picture dreams in which poetry and words come to me. Power wrote several short stories while attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop. My stories were really about human experience. To Power, the term 'Native American novel' defines, categorizes, and limits the creativity of Native American writers. It sounds so anthropological, like there is something different about Indian writers.
People write to get at the universal meaning of life.
There are differences because of cultures, yet there is universal meaning to life. I write to figure out my world and to see what we have in common. As I get older, I feel more connected with people despite their backgrounds. Power draws a line between literature and commercial fiction. I learned from the classics.