Orrery

Kenney, Richard. Orrery. New York: Atheneum, 1986.

Book-length "'poem of the mind'," putting together poems and sequences of poems. According to Jay Parini, in a rev. in The Nation (26 April 1986), Orrery has as its "central metaphor...the orrery of the title": a mechanical representation of the solar system. Poem includes reference to the "simple clockwork / world" of a farm; in his review, Parini stresses the mechanical—in a neutral sense—construction of Orrery (Nation 594).