ISBN: 1948814269 9781948814263

Category: Poetry / American / Native American

Page count: 131

<b>"Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged Earth." <br>—<i>BOOKLIST</i> <br><br>COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER <br>OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARD WINNER <br><br>Throughout this clear–eyed collection</b>, Hogan tenderly excavates how history instructs the present, and envisions a future alive with hope for a healthy and sustainable world that now wavers between loss and survival. <br><br>A major American writer and the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, <b>LINDA HOGAN</b> is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, teacher, and activist who has spent most of her life in Oklahoma and Colorado. Her fiction has garnered many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination and her poetry collections have received the American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination. A volunteer and consultant for wildlife rehabilitation and endangered species programs, Hogan has also published essays with the Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club.