Daughters, I Love You (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Hogan
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Poetry
- 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
Form and Content
Daughters, I Love You is a collection of nine poems ranging in length from thirty-two to sixty-five lines and using the rhythms and vocabulary of ordinary conversation in conjunction with bold imagery and surprising, highly telescoped syntax to develop, from a variety of perspectives, the theme of protest against the life-defeating forces that threaten the environment and all life on Earth. The poems, taking the form of meditations arising in the poet’s consciousness and phrased as her thoughts, move from the personal to the public and political...
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