Kenny, Maurice - Robert L. Berner (review date Winter 1991)
Robert L. Berner (review date Winter 1991)
SOURCE: A review of Rain, and Other Fictions, in World Literature Today, Vol. 65, No. 1, Winter, 1991, p. 169.
[In the following excerpt, Berner comments favorably on the play and stories in Rain, and Other Fictions, noting their relationship to Kenny's poetry.]
Maurice Kenny may be the most distinguished figure in the renaissance that has occurred in American Indian poetry over the last three decades. Rain and Other Fictions is his first collection of fiction. In its preface he tells us that he has never considered himself a storyteller and that his interest in his fiction, as in his narrative poems, has been "not necessarily to spin a tale but to delineate character." In fact, he suggests that he has used prose as a device to purify his poems, a kind of "morning exercise" in which he has sought to get "the statement of prose" out of his system before getting down to the...
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