Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book
of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged
Earth.
--BOOKLIST
COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER
OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARD WINNER
Throughout this clear-eyed collection, 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.
A major American writer and the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and
Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award,
LINDA HOGAN 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.