Dwellings
Book description
Award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan's first work of nonfiction explores the author's lifelong love for the living world and all its inhabitants. As an Indian woman, grandmother, and environmentalist, Hogan questions "our responsibilities to the caretaking of the future and to the other species who share our journey."…
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Dwellings by Linda Hogan captured my heart because it offers something deeper than words—a sacred invitation. Hogan’s writing is like a breath of the Earth itself, drawing you into a relationship with the natural world that feels ancient, yet immediate. This book is both gentle and unyielding in its wisdom, urging us to reconsider how we live, not just as individuals but as a part of an interconnected whole. Hogan doesn’t merely describe landscapes or ecosystems; she brings them alive within us, making each page feel like an encounter, a moment of communion.
What I love most is how she…
I am recommending this book of beautifully written essays on the environment by the Chickasaw novelist, poet, and essayist Linda Hogan because it is the best book on the subject I know.
Dwellings focuses on the Indigenous relation to the natural world, one of kinship, a subject at the core of my thinking. “Here is a lesson,” Hogan tells us, “what happens to the people and what happens to the land is the same thing.” This is a lesson the West has not learned; and its ignorance of this lesson or its refusal to learn it has led us to…
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