Kenny, Maurice - Daniela Gioseffi (review date April 1987)
Daniela Gioseffi (review date April 1987)
SOURCE: "Wild Berries," in The Small Press Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, April, 1987, pp. 4-5.
[Gioseffi is an American poet, short story writer, novelist, nonfiction writer, and critic. In the review below, she remarks on Kenny's poems and stories in Is Summer This Bear and Rain, and Other Fictions.]
Maurice Kenny, accomplished poet, winner of the 1984 American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation for his Mama Poems, in his new collection, Is Summer This Bear, continues in the fine nature tradition of Native-American poetry which he has helped to foster as one of its four or five most mature and significant voices. Kenny, whose Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues, was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize in 1982, is the author of several books of poetry.
Though Kenny's Mama Poems—because of their deep digging into the poet's family roots and his emotional connection...
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