Maurice Kenny: Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer

Foreword: “Maurice Kenny: Not Through Height”

To Levi and those yet unborn whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. CONTENTS Foreword: Maurice Kenny: Not Through Height ix Joseph Bruchac Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1. Reading the Wampum: An Introduction to the Works of Maurice Kenny 1 Penelope Myrtle Kelsey Chapter 2. You, Too, Will Have This Printed Word (World) of Your Own 7 Eric Gansworth Chapter 3. The Breath and Skin of History 15 James Thomas Stevens Chapter 4. Dancing Back Strong Our Nations: Performance as Continuance in Maurice Kenny’s Poetry 25 Qwo-Li Driskill Chapter 5. Maurice Kenny: How Can Any Self-Respecting Mohawk Live in a Place Like Brooklyn? 37 Susan Ward Chapter 6. Tortured Skins, Bears, and Our Responsibilities to the Natural World 47 Nicholle Dragone Chapter 7. Teaching Maurice Kenny’s Fiction: Dislocated Characters, Narrators, and Readers 67 Alan Steinberg and Karen Gibson Chapter 8. The Spirit of Independence: Maurice Kenny’s Tekonwatonti / Molly Brant: Poems of War 75 Craig S. Womack viii CONTENTS Chapter 9. Painting “Word-Pictures” in Place: Maurice Kenny’s Empathetic Imagination of Tekonwatonti / Molly Brant 97 Lisa Brooks Chapter 10. Two-Spirit Images in the Work of Maurice Kenny 119 Lisa Tatonetti Appendix: Maurice Kenny’s Molly Brant: From Poetry to Play 133 Alan Steinberg Bibliography 157 List of Contributors 163 Index 167 ...