Carving Hawk: New and Selected Poems 1956-2000

by Maurice Kenny

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
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Rain and Other Fictions
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Genres: Poetry

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

About the author

Maurice Kenny, Mohawk, was born in Watertown, NY. His work has been published in almost 100 journals, including special issues, especially on Native American writing.

In 2000, Maurice received the Elder Recognition Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers. In 1996 On Second Thought was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in fiction.

Maurice's book of poems, Blackrobe : Isaac Jogues, B. March 11, 1607, D. October 18, 1646, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, as was Between Two Rivers. He is the recipient of a National Public Radio Award for Broadcasting. His book The Mama Poems received the American Book Award in 1984. The Bloomsbury Review cited Wounds Beneath the Flesh as the best anthology of 1983.

Reviews

[behsforensics]

Cutting is for Voices of the American
Indian
By Chrystos and Maurice Kenny

[Laurie Petersen]

He's good at conveying mysticism and he's a nice guy. Believes in straightforward diction a little more than most.

[Gideon Carlisle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful example of how the rhythms of nature can be translated into words.