A History of Kindness - by Linda Hogan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Poems from Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged Earth. <br>--<i>BOOKLIST</i> <p/>COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER <br>OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARD WINNER <p/>Throughout this clear-eyed collection</b>, 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. <p/>A major American writer and the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, <b>LINDA HOGAN</b> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged Earth. <br>--<b><i>BOOKLIST</i></b> <p/>A warm, wise collection of poems focused on living in harmony with self, animals, and Earth. <br>--<b><i>MS. MAGAZINE</i></b> <p/>In an age as acrimonious as ours, Linda Hogan's new poetry collection, <i>A History of Kindness</i>, sounds especially poignant. <br>--<b><i>THE WASHINGTON POST</i></b> <p/>There's something calm and steadying about Hogan's poetry...her writing is accessible and complex all at once. <br>--<b><i>BOOK RIOT</i></b> <p/>There is no one like Linda Hogan. I read her poetry to both calm and ignite my heart. <i>A History of Kindness</i> is a series of oracles rising from the page born out of a life of listening, feeling, responding. <br>--<b>TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS</b>, author of <i>Erosion</i> <p/>Linda Hogan is one of the most important environmental writers of our time. In <i>A History of Kindness</i>, she weaves themes of the body, family, ecology, and animals into a spiral that traverses time and space. In this troubled and dark world, I am grateful for the wisdom, light, and love found in these poems. <br>--<b>CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ</b>, author of <i>Habitat Threshold</i> <p/>Linda Hogan's new collection speaks to us the way a trusted friend might, inviting you to take warmth by the hearth. Her verses teach us how to live with dignity in a world bent on destruction and show why it is important to fight for the planet. <br>--<b>ANA CASTILLO</b>, author of <i>Black Dove</i> <p/>In this new collection, Linda Hogan weaves together memory, the Milky Way, buffalo and rivers with the wonder and wisdom of an ancient soul, and a passionate heart. We are blessed, once again, by her words. <br>--<b>DEBORAH A. MIRANDA</b>, author of <i>Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir</i> <p/><b>Praise for Linda Hogan: </b> <p/>Hogan's poetry has always been a medicine of sorts. <br>--<b>JOY HARJO</b>, US Poet Laureate <p/>With her unparalleled gifts for truth and magic, Hogan reinforces my faith in reading, writing, living. <br>--<b>BARBARA KINGSOLVER</b>, author of <i>Unsheltered</i> <p/>Hogan is essential, a mighty and bedrock voice in American letters. <br>--<b>LUIS ALBERTO URREA</b>, author of <i>The House of Broken Angels</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>A major American writer and the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, <b>LINDA HOGAN</b> 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.
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