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    A History of Kindness
    A History of Kindness
    A History of Kindness
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    A History of Kindness

    By Linda Hogan

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    "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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTorrey House Press
    Release dateJun 2, 2020
    ISBN9781948814263
    A History of Kindness
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    Linda Hogan

    Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist. She is the author of Dwellings, The Book of Medicines, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the American Book Award winner Seeing Through the Sun; and Mean Spirit, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been the recipient of several awards, including an NEA Fellowship, a Minnesota Arts Board grant, a Lannan Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship. She was also inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame and served as a Writer in Residence for the Chickasaw Nation.

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      A History of Kindness - Linda Hogan

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      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

      Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

      Torrey House Press offices in Salt Lake City sit on the homelands of Ute, Goshute, Shoshone, and Paiute nations. Offices in Torrey are in homelands of Paiute, Ute, and Navajo nations.

      For Kyan Red Star and Kayse Red Star

      Contents

      Book One: The Body Life

      The Red Part

      When the Body

      Bathing with Tender Care

      About Myself

      Lost in the Milky Way

      What We Kept

      Recuerdo

      The Feet and Where They Travel

      Lies bout the Body

      Down from the Sky

      Bone, Looking at the Pieta

      If Home Is the Body

      The Fingers, Writing

      Bones at the River

      Creation

      The Maps

      Skin

      The Pine Forest Calls Me

      Nativity

      Embodied

      Book Two: Old Mother

      Eagle Feather Prayer

      We Have Walked Down Past

      Walking by Stolen Creek

      Buffalo Road: Leaving South Dakota

      Old Mother

      That Stone from the River

      The Buffalo Again

      The Names of Creeks

      The Mountain Between

      A Need for Happiness

      Outside My Cabin

      Old Mother Remembers

      Memory

      Watching Over

      We Used to Have Pearls

      Holly Springs, Mississippi

      Distance Not Time

      Book Three: The Radiant Field

      God of the Prairies

      One Creation

      Ceremony for the Seeds

      The Radiant Field

      A History of Kindness

      Remember

      Sweet Silence

      Honey. My Friend

      Sunshine

      Some New Marvel

      Isn’t It Love

      The Writing of Snow

      The Long Clouds

      War Story: Heard

      Fences

      Tulsa

      All Angels in the Dark

      Peeling an Apple

      Book Four: The Other Country

      A Night in Turkey

      The Camel

      In the Great Desert

      Home on the Island

      Sky Above a Crumbling World

      River Singing

      Book Five: The Current Veins

      The Kill

      The Bears Eating

      Burying the Horse

      Haunting

      To Be Held

      Arctic Night, Lights Across the Sky

      Dear Child

      Absences

      Water Gods of the Next World

      Fawn

      This Morning

      I Saw Them Dancing

      For the Women

      White Deer, Your Direction I Follow

      Grace

      Here Is

      The Current Veins of History

      Author’s Note and Acknowledgments

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      Book One

      The Body Life

      When the Body

      When the body wishes to speak, she will

      reach into the night and pull back the rapture of this growing root

      which has no faith in the other planets of the universe,

      but her feet have walked in the same bones

      of the ancestors over long trails,

      leaving behind the oldest forest. They walk on the ghosts

      of all that has gone before them, not just plant, but animal, human,

      the bones of the ones who left their horses to drink with them

      at the spring running through earth’s mortal body

      which has much to tell about what happened that day.

      When the body wishes to speak from the hands, it tells

      how it pulled children back from death and it remembers every detail,

      washing the children’s bodies, legs, bellies, the delicate lips of the girl,

      the vulnerable testicles of the son,

      that future my people brought out of the river

      in a spring freeze. That is only part of the story of hands

      that touched our future.

      This all started so simply, just a body with so much to say,

      one with the hum of her own life in a quiet room,

      one of the root growing, finding a way through stone,

      one not remembering nights with men and guns,

      the ragged clothing and broken bones of my body.

      Let’s go back to the hands,

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