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North Country Reflections: On Life and Living in the Foothills and the Valleys
Av Neal Burdick, Maurice Kenny
Inbunden, 2013
385 kr
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In the Time of the Present
Häftad, 2000
337 kr
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This new collection of poetry from Maurice Kenny explores identity, honors nature, and celebrates everyday life. Modern life is described, while Native American culture is glimpsed, ghost-like, on the margins. Natural bounty-flowers, fruits-is extolled and welcomed. The simplest things-the arrival …
Wounds Beneath the Flesh
Fifteen Native American Poets
Häftad, 1995
94 kr
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"This sampler is a good introduction to a number of writers and to the kind of work being done by American Indian poets. Kenny has chosen carefully and well. The work is varied, but the poems have in common the celebration, without romanticising, of heritage and the power of remembering." -- Joseph …
Rain and Other Fictions
Häftad, 1995
94 kr
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"The most distinguished figure in the renaissance that has occurred in American Indian poetry over the last three decades. He thus brings to his fiction a poet's concern for precision and exactness in diction."--World Literature Today
Angry Rain
A Brief Memoir
Av Maurice Kenny, Derek C. Maus
Häftad, 2018
292 kr
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Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny's growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.Maurice Kenny's career as a writer, teacher, publisher, and storyteller spanned more than six decades, during which he published over thirty …
Tekonwatonti: Molly Brant
Poems of War
Häftad, 1995
184 kr
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Sister of famed warrior Chief Joseph Brant and wife of the legendary Sir William Johnson, Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant seemed destined to exist only in their shadows until acclaimed poet Maurice Kenny plucked her from the footnotes of history. In a remarkable sequence of voices that span the centuries, …
Backward to Forward
Prose Pieces
Häftad, 1997
143 kr
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American Book Award winner Maurice Kenny has long been a major voice in Native American literature. In this collection, he writes of such little-known and controversial issues as the gay tradition in Native American history and looks at how his Mohawk background has impacted on his own writing.
Stories for a Winter's Night
Short Fiction by Native American Writers
Häftad, 2000
181 kr
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Storytelling has always had an important role in Native American culture. Beginning as an oral tradition, Native stories became the repositories of tribal history and memory, and the story-tellers were revered members of every tribe. As a written form, storytelling took much longer to develop. As …
Carving Hawk
New and Selected Poems 1956-2000
Häftad, 2002
193 kr
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This book contains work from all phases of Kenny's career, beginning with his Butler University days through his life in New York City and on his many road trips through his eventual return to his homeland in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. Much of the work appeared originally in books …
Connotations
Häftad, 2008
159 kr
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"Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say."-Wendy Rose "A master …
Mama Poems
Häftad, 2008
146 kr
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"The world [Maurice] Kenny opens for us is personal, yet never sentimental. It is a world in which long-dead relatives can appear when they are needed; in which the drum sounds in rituals of curing; a world vibrant with the natural landscape."-Joseph Bruchac, Small Press Review In conjunction with …
