When I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to?
Ifá. Nature. Illness. Love. Loss. Misogyny. Aging. Africa. Our wounded planet. In this sweeping yet intensely personal collection, Lauren Martin tells the untold stories of the marginalized, the abused, the ill, the disabled—the different. Inspired by her life’s experiences, including the isolation she has suffered as a result both of living with chronic illness and having devoted herself to a religion outside the mainstream, these poems explore with raw vulnerability and unflinching honesty what it is to live apart—even as one yearns for connection.
But Night of the Hawk is no lament; it is powerful, reverential, sometimes humorous, often defiant—“Oh heat me and fill me / I rise above lines”—and full of wisdom. Visceral and stirring, the poems in this collection touch on vastly disparate subjects but are ultimately unified in a singular quest: to inspire those who read them toward kindness, compassion, and questioning.
- 73 pages
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Poetry Key
- Essentials of Man
- Osceola
- As The Bow Breaks
- Night of the Hawk
- My experience as a postmenopausal woman
- Peaches
- Spirochete
- Òsun Wè Mímó
- As the Bow Breaks, part two
- For Moths of Unforeseen Causal Events
- Impact
- Franky
- The Waiting Tree
- Yemoja Speaks to Scott Pruitt
- Over The Day
- CSF
- 1969
- As the Bow Breaks, part three
- Booze
- Ode
- Tuesdays
- Of Times Travelled
- Uncle Ceremony
- You Know Things
- Sad Song for a Nation
- Ziggy
- Montera
- Chattanooga
- Lepidoptera
- As the Bow Breaks, part four
- A Sea of Kisses
- Dawn
- You Will Have to Eat Pizza With Your Friends
- Schlan
- Tarrytown
- Untitled Tilda Swinton Poem
- After the Fall—A Love Song
- And One Day You Will Dance
- Oh Space
- Wolves
- Quebrar Hacha
- Mother
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Selected Titles from She Writes Press
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