Linda Hogan
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences,...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
—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...