A History of Kindness

Linda Hogan

• Publisher: Torrey House Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781566890106
  9781566893510
• eBook ISBN:
  9781948814263
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

"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 WINNERThroughout 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.

a History of Kindness

a History of Kindness

poems

Linda Hogan

TORREY HOUSE PRESS

Salt Lake City • Torrey

The author is grateful to the following journals and anthologies for publishing some of the poems found in this book: World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, Poetry, Pembroke, Split This Rock, The Eloquent Body, Cutthroat, StorySouth, Thinking Continental, Red Leaf Poetry, Ghost Fishing, Yellow Medicine Review, About Place Journal, Oklahoma Today, Emergence Magazine, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Beacon, The Radiant Lives of Animals, Poesia Indigena, Ecopoetry, ISLE.

Special thanks to Coffee House Press for permission to reprint “Ceremony for the Seeds,” a version of which appears in Dark. Sweet.

First Torrey House Press Edition, April 2020

Copyright © 2020 by Linda Hogan

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or retransmitted in any form or by any means without the written consent of the publisher.

Published by Torrey House Press

Salt Lake City, Utah

www.torreyhouse.org

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-948814-25-6

E-book ISBN: 978-1-948814-26-3

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019952010

Cover design by Kathleen Metcalf

Interior design by Rachel Davis

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