Linda Hogan (Chickasaw Nation) is known as an activist writer, award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist. She is the author of numerous books on topics of ethical, political, and spiritual concern for Native peoples: Dark. Sweet., Solar Storms, Mean Spirit, Power, People of the Whale, Dwellings, Woman Who Watches Over the World, numerous books of poems, and edited anthologies. A History of Kindness and The Radiant Lives of Animals are forthcoming in 2020.
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Fences
I will never think of this in the same way,
watching the woman in her daily brown skirt
throw her own body against the fence
and try...
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Bathing with Tender Care
And not this time the body of my child,but my own skin, loving the wrinkled kneesand the scars dealt t...
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2014. ISBN 9781566893510
From the beginning of her career, Linda Hogan’s often prayer-like poems evoke liminality, speaking from blurred boundaries of animal and human...