Name: A History of Kindness
SKU: 52779313
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Author: Linda Hogan

Type

Physical Book

Author

Linda Hogan

Publisher

Torrey House Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

100

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15x2 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781948814256

Synopsis "A History of Kindness "

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.

Linda Hogan

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Linda Hogan (Denver, 1947) es escritora, poeta y ensayista de origen chickasaw, y una de las voces fundamentales de la literatura indígena contemporánea. Su escritura nace de una cosmovisión que entrelaza espiritualidad nativa, conocimiento ancestral y una honda conciencia ecológica. Autora de la novela Mean Spirit (finalista del Premio Pulitzer), de poemarios como Rounding the Human Corners (nominado al Pulitzer) y The History of Kindness, y de libros de no ficción como The Woman Who Watches Over the World y The Radiant Lives of Animals, ha recibido, entre otros reconocimientos, la Beca Guggenheim y el Premio a la Trayectoria del Círculo de Escritores Nativos de las Américas. En 2023, fue distinguida con el Doctorado Honoris Causa en Letras Humanas por la Universidad de Colorado. Moradas. Una historia espiritual del mundo viviente condensa de manera especialmente nítida la singularidad de su mirada y ocupa un lugar central dentro de su obra.

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