Daughters, I Love You (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Hogan
- First Published: 1981
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Nature, Spiritual life or spirituality, Native Americans or American Indians, Survivalism, Life and death, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Atomic bomb, Nuclear warfare or weapons
The Work
Daughters, I Love You is a small, tightly interwoven collection of nine poems addressing the issue of the nuclear age. The work might even be considered a single long poem in several parts all thematically centered on this issue. Linda Hogan’s dedication offers the book to Navajo women fighting environmental exploitation, to Sister Rosalie Bertell, a fellow participant at a protest encampment in South Dakota, to gentle women throughout the world, and to the author’s daughters. References to all of these women recur throughout the poems. In two of the poems...
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