The poetry writing was very important to me. It was a way of trying to define who I was in an environment that felt foreign. I realize now that writi… - Linda Hogan

Would it have been a different world if someone had believed our lives were as important as theory and gold? (p179)

(Your writing is rich with love and compassion – how do you stay rooted in those qualities when dealing with such tragic themes as the destruction of our environment and the treatment of Native Americans?) What other choice do I have? It doesn’t mean I have no anger about injustice. I do. I throw myself down when it is violent and painful. But it is also a matter of how to work against that injustice. I haven’t seen it succeed by fighting, yelling, rage, or outward anger. Think of those yelling faces you see on the news, mouths wide open. They lose. Their anger, their hatred has the opposite effect of what they are reaching toward.

We are, in part, the body of earth (p 206)