Kenny, Maurice - Robert L. Berner (review date Spring 1992)
Robert L. Berner (review date Spring 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Last Mornings in Brooklyn, in World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 2, Spring, 1922, p. 387.
[Below, Berner remarks favorably on Last Mornings in Brooklyn.]
Maurice Kenny is perhaps the dean of American Indian poets, and his Between Two Rivers: Selected Poems 1956–1984 revealed a wide range of skills and approaches to verse. Last Mornings in Brooklyn is a sequence of forty-six very brief poems (or a single poem in forty-six brief parts), composed of everything perceived in a particular street from an apartment window in Brooklyn Heights on a particular Saturday morning. Though the poet may not consider it a major addition to his work, a careful reading suggests that there is more to it than meets the superficial eye.
Kenny's minimalist intentions—not to capture all the time and space of a city but only a small moment in a specific setting—are...
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