Savings (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Hogan
- First Published: 1988
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Abused persons, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Domestic violence, Native Americans or American Indians, Oklahoma, Women’s issues, Refugees, Aging
The Work
Savings, Linda Hogan’s fifth collection of poems, continues and expands themes initiated in her earlier works and provides a perspective on the development of the poet’s work in the ten years since the publication of her first collection. The poems in Savings tend to be discursive and low-key, and many are longer than the poet’s characteristic work in other books. In contrast to her usual free verse forms, in this book Hogan experiments with form, as in the loose unrhymed couplets of “The New Apartment: Minneapolis.”
Hogan’s thematic...
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