Bøger af Maurice Kenny

In his final work, Maurice Kenny interrogates that crisis of contact between European-American expansion and the free Cheyenne Nation, and especially the enigmatic woman, Monahsetah, the Cheyenne second "wife" to General George Armstrong Custer, whom the Cheyenne reviled.

"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

This is probably Maurice Kenny's most powerful and surely his most personal collection.

"Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation." -Wendy Rose

An expansive selection of work by a celebrated Native American writer and American Book Award winner.

Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant was the sister of famed warrior Chief Joseph Brant and wife of legendary Sir William Johnson. In a remarkable sequence of voices that span centuries, Kenny eloquently addresses the power of belief and the importance of memory, and grants Molly her rightful place as one of the most powerful figures in Native American history.

"The work is varied, but the poems have in common the celebration, without romanticizing, of heritage and the power of remembering."-Joseph Bruchac, American Indian Quarterly "As solid and resonant a selection as you'll find in a volume of fifty pages. My only criticism is that it isn't twice as long."-Adirondak Library