Dark. Sweet. - new and selected poems - read poetry excerpts

Sep 18, 2026

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Dark. Sweet. is a poetry collection and includes selections from Linda Hogan’s earlier works, presented with publication and permission acknowledgments. It features dedications to the future of the world, indigenous communities, forests, and loved ones, emphasizing remembrance, healing, and care for the earth. The contents organize poems by their original sources, ranging from themes of home and memory to light, evolution, medicine, animals, and seasonal or spiritual reflections.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages400

Reading Time10 h 16 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

from Calling Myself Home (1978)

from Eclipse (1983)

from Seeing through the Sun (1985)

from Savings (1988)

from The Book of Medicines (1993)

from Rounding the Human Corners (2008)

Dark. Sweet. COPYRIGHT © 2014 by Linda Hogan COVER AND BOOK DESIGN by Linda Koutsky COVER PHOTO “Reaching Oak” © Chase M Clow COFFEE HOUSE PRESS books are available to the trade through our primary distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, cbsd.com or (800) 283-3572. For personal orders, catalogs, or other information, write to: [info@coffeehousepress.org](info@coffeehousepress.org). Coffee House Press is a nonprofit literary publishing house. Support from private foundations, corporate giving programs, government programs, and generous individuals helps make the publication of our books possible. We gratefully acknowledge their support in detail in the back of this book. To you and our many readers around the world, we send our thanks for your continuing support. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CIP INFORMATION Hogan, Linda. [Poems. Selections] Dark, sweet : new and selected poems / by Linda Hogan. pages cm ISBN 978-1-56689-352-7 (e-book) I. Title. PS3558 .O34726D38 2014 811' .54—DC23 2013035170 The poems in this collection are excerpted by permission from the following publications: Calling Myself Home (Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1978), Eclipse (Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, 1983), Seeing through the Sun (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985), Savings (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988), The Book of Medicines (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993), Rounding the Human Corners (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2008), and Indios (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2012) . To write poetry, I have to be in love with the world. —RON HAUSCHIU DEDICATIONS This book is for the future of our world, for the indigenous people and all the others who care for our forests and the lands we want to keep whole. I dedicate this not only to our incomparable planet with its great waters, old-growth forests, and old-growth people, but also to our young. This is an offering to my beautiful grandchildren; the two Michaels (may you give back something to this earth); Danielle and Cami, with their already great offerings to the future; and to my sister/daughter Kathy, who nurtured these; and for Vivian Marie Park, granddaughter who was so much of my life for so many years; and for my dearest and very missed Tanya, with such special memories of our life together. This is to healing for Sandra. But above all this book is for Jayla, great-grandchild who will inherit this future. May you remember to care for this earth, all we have. The living earth will care back. Contents from Calling MyselfHome (1978) Turtle Hackberry Trees Red Clay Calling Myself Home Finding Beads Going to Town Stolen Trees Crows Remembering the Lightning Celebration: Birth of a Colt Heritage Thanksgiving Man in the Moon Fisherman Arrowhead Leaving Coyote After Fish Blessing The River Calls Them Rain Song for My Name Vapor Cave from Eclipse (1983) Daughters, I Love You Disappearances X-ray of My Daughter Idaho Falls, 1961 A Prayer for Men and Women The Women Are Grieving The Women Speaking Who Will Speak? V. Who Will Speak? Train’s Passage Morning’s Dance from Seeing through the Sun (1985) Seeing through the Sun The Truth Is Porcupine on the Road to the River Mississippi Trees Heartland The Pond Through the Fog Evolution in Light and Water Eclipse II Friday Night The Other Side Night and Day Woman Chopping Wood Watch Me To Light Turning Territory of the Night from Savings (1988) Saving All Winter Me, Crow, Fish, and the Magi The New Apartment: Minneapolis First Light What Has Happened to These Working Hands? Pillow Breaking Elk Song The Lost Girls Offering Workday The Other Voices The Truth of the Matter Gamble The Hands The History of Fire What I Think Knife Neighbors Get Up, Go AWOL! Scorpion Those Who Thunder What Gets

FAQs

What kind of publication is Dark. Sweet. ?

It is a collection of poems, presented as “new and selected poems” by Linda Hogan.

How is the book’s content organized?

The contents list poems grouped by the earlier publications they are excerpted from, such as Calling Myself Home, Eclipse, Seeing through the Sun, and others.

What is the dedication focused on?

The dedications center on the future of the world, indigenous people, protecting forests and lands, and caring for the earth, alongside personal family acknowledgments.

Sep 18, 2026

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