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Reveals the development of Maurice Kennys growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived. Maurice Kennys career as a writer, teacher, publisher, and storyteller spanned more than six decades, during which he published over thirty books and became one of the most prominent voices in American poetry. From the early 1970s onward, he was instrumental in the resurgence of Native American literature through both his celebrated volumes of poetry, such as I Am the Sun and the award-winning The Mama Poems, and his work as an editor and publisher. Angry Rain, his bittersweet memoir, reveals this rich literary life by recounting its tumultuous first halfplus a bit, a time during which he moved through a series of worlds that all left their marks on him. Kenny begins with his early years spent among his family in the small northern New York city of Watertown and continues through an adolescence marked by both significant awakenings and grievous traumas. Determined, Kenny sets out to seek his fortunes and find his poetic voice, landing in the Jim Crowera South, in St. Louis, in Indiana, and finally in New York City, where he becom

Author

Maurice Kenny; Derek C. Maus

Publisher

Excelsior Editions, an imprint of the State University of New York Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438471068

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography