The New Apartment (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Hogan
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Racism, Native Americans or American Indians, City life, Apartment houses, Minnesota
In “The New Apartment: Minneapolis,” Hogan's dislike of the city dominates. The poem begins with Hogan describing her new apartment's unpleasant features: creaking, burn-scarred floorboards, no view of the moon, the way in which the building “wants to fall down/ the universe when earth turns,” and the way it “still holds the coughs of old men.”
Hogan meditates upon the Indian people who lived in the building before she moved in and recalls “how last spring white merchants hung an elder/ on a meathook and beat him.” This beating of an elderly Indian man who was...
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