Kenny, Maurice - Maurice Kenny (essay date March 1992)
Maurice Kenny (essay date March 1992)
SOURCE: A preface to Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant (1735–1795): Poems of War, White Pine Press, 1992, pp. 9-14.
[In the following excerpt, written while Kenny was visiting the En'owkin Centre in Okanagan, Canada, he comments on Molly Brant and his reasons for writing a volume of poetry about her.]
This moment finds me far from Iroquois country. This March morning I sit before the t.v. watching the Syracuse and Seton Hall basketball teams battling for a berth in the Final Four Tournament. This is about as close as I can get now to Molly Brant and home country, the Mohawk Valley and the high peaks of the Adirondacks where I live in the village of Saranac Lake … currently covered in deep snow and bitter cold. This morning the Canadian sun shines on the balcony, nurturing my African violet, which has not been doing well this season. Across the city, Penticton, I can see from the veranda the Okanagan range...
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