Linda Hogan

Dwellings

Award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants.

"We want to live as if there is no other place," Hogan tells us, "as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life." In offering praise to sky, earth, water, and animals, she calls us to witness how each living thing is alive I n a conscious world with its own integrity, grace, and dignity.

In Dwellings, Hogan takes us on a spiritual quest borne out of the deep past and offers a more hopefuyl future as she seeks new visions and lights ancient fires.

"A beautifully poetic book of wonder."—San Francisco Examiner

"Hogan exquisitely examines both natural and internal landscapes. She writes beautifully about animals without anthropomorphizing them and, in so doing, explores what it means to be human. Herself a Chickasaw, Hogan is able to bring a diverse cultural perspective to her analysis of how people relate to nature."—Publishers Weekly

"Hogan brings her feeling for language and story to these quietly beautiful and provocative musings on the nature of nature...of the 'circular infinity' of life and death, of how air, earth, and water commingle and transform each other, how flowers bloom even in a place as blasted as Hiroshima."—Booklist

"She encourages her readers to see themselves as a small part of the whole that is our ecosystem. The pieces come together to reflect the author's profound respect for the earth and prompt us to feel the same."—Library Journal