Research Catalog

Title

On second thought : a compilation / by Maurice Kenny ; with a foreword by Joseph Bruchac/Green Corn Moon.

Author

Kenny, Maurice, 1929-2016.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Description

xvii, 265 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• As one of the earliest and strongest voices in contemporary American Indian literature, Maurice Kenny has proved himself to be very much a "high-steel" Iroquois - a Mohawk famed for scaling the heights of New York City and forging a contemporary Native American identity known nationwide.
• This latest collection includes old and new favorites in poetry, fiction, criticism, and political commentary, plus an unusual literary memoir of New York in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s - upstate, Manhattan, and Brooklyn - from a Native American poet's point of view.

Series Statement

American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 18

Uniform Title

American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 18.

Subjects

• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Kenny, Maurice, 1929-2016
• Mohawk Indians > Biography
• Mohawk Indians > Literary collections

Contents

• Foreword / Joseph Bruchac/Green Corn Moon -- Introduction: A Memoir -- The Hawk -- First Rule -- Going Home -- In My Sixth August -- Wild Strawberry -- Boston Tea Party -- Sacrifice -- Osheranoha -- 12 Moons -- Wolf -- Red-Tail -- Raccoon -- Bear -- Coyote -- Wine Grapes -- Listening for the Elders -- Brooklyn Pigeon -- Graveyards -- Deb -- Archeologist -- Kaherawak's Birthday - July 28 -- Handing the Baton -- April 22, 1985 -- On Second Thought -- Heard Poem -- George Segal at the Whitney Museum, N.Y.C. -- Last Night -- The Comet -- Young Male -- sofky: Seminole Soup -- Friendship Days at Akwesasne -- Greyhounding to Billings, Montana -- Ojibwa -- Sea/River -- Canyon de Chelly -- 1/28/81: Fifi -- Ghost Dance -- Musseling -- Oroville High, California -- Inuit -- Listening to Leslie Silko Telling Stories, NYC 2/8/79 -- I Watched Raven Take The Sky -- A Partial Explanation -- March Reserve -- Dogwoods -- Cyclist -- For Cherokee Marie --
• Sand Creek, Colorado -- Monahsetah -- Sacajawea -- Fragment -- The Yellowstone -- Monet -- When in Reality -- Canyon de Chelly, Return - 1978 -- November Sierras, 1976 -- Wanda on the Seashore -- Basho's Pond -- Reading Poems in Public -- In the Vines -- Citation -- Prayer for Philip Deere -- Postcard -- Winter's End -- Walking Woods with Dogs -- Tamarack -- On the Sunporch - Pre-Dawn -- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage -- Mysteries -- Dug-Out -- I See with My Own Eyes -- Icarus -- For Brett -- Recuerdo -- Sunflower -- Garden -- Still Life -- On the Jetty -- Essence: I Am the Blood of This Grass -- Rain -- Blue Jacket -- Black Kettle: Fear and Recourse -- Preface (1984): Is Summer This Bear -- Remembrance: Amiri Baraka -- A Remembrance: Willard Motley -- In Name Only...: A Review -- "I Do Not Waste What Is Wild...": Louis (Little Coon) Oliver -- Introducing the Poet to the Man: T.S. Eliot -- Proliferation: Isaac Jogues.

ISBN

080612766X (alk. paper)

LCCN

95005891

OCLC

• 32049349
• ocm32049349

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries