Carving hawk : new & selected poems, 1953-2000 / Maurice Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Maurice, 1929-2016.

Contributor:

Cole, Danielle, artist.

White Pine Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

367 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, NY : White Pine Press, [2002]

Summary:

Five decades of work are reflected in this expansive collection. Beginning with Kenny's earliest work and continuing with poems from his next eighteen books, many long out of print, the book follows the career of this renowned Native American writer. Also included are thirty new and uncollected poems.

Maurice Kenny is visiting professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He lives in Saranac Lake in New York State's Adirondack Mountains. His most recent books, both from the University of Michigan Press, are "Tortured Skins & Other Fictions" and "In the Time of the Present."

Also Available by Maurice Kenny "Backward to Forward" TP $14.00, 1-877727-69-5 o CUSA "Rain and Other Fictions" TP $8.00, 0-934834-98-0

Contents:

The Hopeless Kill (1956), Dead Letters Sent (1958), and With Love To Lesbia (1960)

Truth: the Search 23

Resignation 25

Ritual 26

A Walk in the City 27

I Will Learn to Bear the Sting of Fire 28

The Hopeless Kill 29

Dead Letters Sent 30

The Hawk 34

To Lesbia from Catullus, 1958 35

Catullus to Lesbia, 1958 35

I Am The Sun (1976)

I Am The Sun 39

I See With My Own Eyes 43

North: Poems of Home (1977)

First Rule 49

Gowane 50

Cold Creek 52

Home 53

Mulleins Are My Arms 55

Land 56

Dancing Back Strong the Nation (1979)

Listen, the old woman came here 61

I Went North 62

Drums 63

The Women 64

Dance 65

Moccasin 66

Going Home 68

The Steelworker 69

Legacy 70

Yaikini 72

In My Sixth August 74

Wild Strawberry 75

Faye 77

In the Flow 78

Only As Far As Brooklyn (1981)

Boys 81

I Shall Not Write of Love 82

Winkte 83

Papago I 85

Papago II 86

After Reading The Greek Poet 87

Comanche of the Yamaha 88

Kodachrome Double Exposure 89

Kneading the Blood (1981)

Strawberrying 93

The Parts We Keep 94

Boston Tea Party (1982)

Boston Tea Party 99

The Smell of Slaughter (1982)

Sacrifice 107

Boyhood Country Creek 108

They Tell Me I Am Lost 109

In Country Light 112

Oh, Wendy, Arthur 113

Horses 114

Blackrobe (1982)

Peacemaker 117

Aiionwatha 118

Rouen, France 119

At Sea 120

Les Hures 121

First Meeting With Kiotsaeton 122

Kiotsaeton 124

Cardinal Richelieu 125

Approaching the Mohawk Village 126

Bear (One) 127

Among the Mohawks 128

The People of the Flint 129

Wolf Aunt (One) 130

Wolf Aunt (Two) 131

His Visions 134

Bear (Two) 136

October 18, 1646 139

The French Informal Report 140

Turtle 141

Tekawitha 143

Rokwaho 144

The Mama Poems (1984)

1911 147

Coming to an Understanding 149

Sometimes, Injustice 150

Mama Failed to Kill the Rat 151

Inheritance 152

Wake 153

Picking Blackberries 154

Joshua Clark 156

Black River, Summer 1981 160

Telephone Call 162

Mama 164

December 167

May 15, 1982 168

Reverberation 170

1982 171

Is Summer This Bear (1985)

Osheranoha 175

12 Moons 176

Wolf 177

Redtail 178

Listening for the Elders 180

Graveyards 182

Kaherawak's Birthday 184

Greyhounding This America (1988)

A Partial Explanation 189

For Cherokee Marie 190

Sand Creek, Colorado 191

The Yellowstone 193

Monet 197

When in Reality 198

Canyon de Chelly, Return, 1978 199

November Sierras, 1976 201

Wanda on the Seashore 202

Reading Poems in Public 203

Humors and/or Not So Humorous (1988)

On Second Thought 207

Heard Poem 208

The Comet 209

Young Male 210

Sofky: Seminole Soup 212

Friendship Days at Akwesasne 213

Ojibwa 214

Oroville High, California 215

Inuit 216

Reno Hill...Little Bighorn 217

Listening to Leslie Silko Telling Stories 218

The Short and the Long of It (1990)

In The Vines 221

Postcard 223

Walking Woods With Dogs 229

Mysteries 232

Dugout 235

Last Mornings in Brooklyn (1991)

Saturday Morning Between 7 A.M. and 12 Noon 251

7 A.M....

The yellow Honda

It's a hot day...

His t-shirt...

A youth...

Apollo and David...

Helene pushes Evan's carriage...

His hawk feather

I know his name is Browning,...

Norman Mailer...

He stands, he leans,...

Tekonwatonti: Molly Brant (1992)

I, Tekonwatonti 257

Molly Brant to Willie 259

Sir William's Reply to Molly 260

Molly: Report Back to the Village 261

General Jeffrey Amherst 262

Sir William Johnson: On His Death Bed 263

Molly: At His Death 264

Molly 265

Call Me...Woman 267

On Second Thought (1995)

For Brett 271

Recuerdo 272

Sunflower 273

On the Jetty 274

Common Days: A Place Record (1998)

Spring 277

Michael 277

Van of Students 277

My Lynn (W) 278

Wildflower 279

Above the Saranac 280

Ghosts 281

Sula 282

In the Time of the Present (2000)

New Song 285

Photograph 286

Roman Nose: Cheyenne Warrior 289

O/Rain in the Face 292

Mask 294

The Hands of Annie-Mae Aquash 296

Mood Piece 299

Writing a Love Letter I Know You Will Never Receive 300

"Why is Scarface Your Favorite Mountain?" 302

Sweat 303

Pima 306

Dancing at Oneida Nation 307

An American Night 308

Christmas 309

The Note 311

Tekonwatonti, German Flats 314

Essence 315

Uncollected Poems (2001)

Visiting Elaine 319

Going to the Mountains 322

Sky Woman 324

Still Life at Cedar House 327

Tongue-Tied 328

Cudweed 329

Chokeberry 333

Indominitable Spirit 334

Stone Throwing 336

Reflected Eberhart 338

Gold 339

You Know Who You Were, Are, Will Be 343

Words to the Indian Woman of the West Coast 346

Okanagan 348

El Paso Del Norte 349

Allen Ginsberg 352

Andrew's Dilemma 355

Feo/Bello 356

Existential Dread 358

Detail 362

Maurice Kenny: A Brief Biography 364.

Notes:

Poems.

Cover drawing by Danielle Cole.

ISBN:

1893996506

OCLC:

50816565