Kenny, Maurice - Joseph Bruchac (review date September 1984)
Joseph Bruchac (review date September 1984)
SOURCE: A review of The Mama Poems, in The Small Press Review, Vol. 16, No. 9, September, 1984, p. 12.
[Bruchac is a Native American educator, poet, and editor who has edited numerous works on Native American authors and literatures. Below, he offers a highly favorable assessment of The Mama Poems.]
With the release of [The Mama Poems], Maurice Kenny moves closer towards achieving recognition as a major figure among American writers. Already seen by some critics as one of the 4 or 5 most significant Native American poets, Kenny speaks in The Mama Poems with a distinctive voice, one shaped by the rhythms of Mohawk life and speech, yet one which both defines and moves beyond cultural boundaries.
The Mama Poems is, somewhat like his earlier volume of poems centering around the figure of the Jesuit missionary Father Isaac Jogues, Black Robe, a flow of...
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