Seeing through the Sun

"The poems of Linda Hogan seem to come right out of the earth. We believe the details and scenes and characters in them. Her statements arrive with a sense of authority. The stories and implied stories have the feel of poetic legend; some of them have the movement of ballads. Mothers and daughters arise in these poems like archetypes of the human condition. They suffer, they endure, and they rejoice. . . . These poems grapple with hard experience and come through it, somehow, singing."—Joseph Langland