Power by Linda Hogan

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Linda Hogan
• Title: Power
• Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (1999)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 235 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0393319687
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393319682
• Item Weight: ‎ .50 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good
• Cover Condition: Good

Synopsis:

"Linda Hogan's remarkable gift is a language of her own, moving gracefully between ordinary conversation and the embrace of divinity…Power is a haunting, beautiful testament." ―Barbara Kingsolver

When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people-she is suddenly torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe, and to Ama and her traditional people, for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance.

About the Author:

Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw author with numerous books and awards and honors to match.

Linda Hogan has had awards and fellowships from The Lannan Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the NEA, and was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer when John Updike received it. It was her first novel; MEAN SPIRIT.

Her other books have also received awards or nominations. She has a fellowship from the Native Arts Foundation. She also received the 2016 PEN THOREAU AWARD, an honor also awarded to EO Wilson and Peter Matthieson. Her novel PEOPLE OF THE WHALE has been very popular in Taiwan and China, POWER is set in Florida, with a focus on the Florida panther. It has been used with both adult and younger audiences.

SOLAR STORMS includes both the James Bay HydroQuebec project in the far north, and is also about adoption in Native communities. DWELLINGS has been a best seller in Japan and done well in U.S. Her new and selected book of poetry, DARK. SWEET. is now available, and she has just finished a new novel, THE MERCY LIARS, not yet in print.

Hogan is respected for her work in Indigenous knowledge, Native Science and wildlife rehabilitation as well as her writing that includes ecosystem research. She has a new book of poems, A HISTORY OF KINDNESS coming out from Torrey House Press in April 2020, and a book of essays on relationships with animals and their place in her wilderness region, in Native life, and as fellow travelers with us in an increasingly difficult world. This was published by Beacon in Fall of 2020. The Radiant Lives of Animals.

Traveling the world has unexpectedly come with her life as a writer.

Of her present life in the Colorado Mountains, she says: A Chickasaw mustang and a wild burro live with me along with a few other rescued animals. I live in forest, canyon, and mountain country where I hear a creek all year and owls most nights. Writing is my passion and poetry is my first language. I use it whether I am writing essays, fiction, or articles that are part of my life as an activist.