Instead, It Is Dark (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781636280653)

Following her husband's massive heart attack, Cynthia Hogue began writing poems based on dreams and memories that he, born during WWII in occupied France, had as a child growing up in a time of vast postwar food shortages. Hogue embarked on a quest to discover if there were more such memories in her extended family in France. When asked, family members told her never-before-shared tales of parents who were POWs, collaborators, Resistance fighters, and one most vulnerable--of a hidden child. Hogue spent years researching the lives of civilians during war, work crystallized in her tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark. The personal is alchemized as Hogue weaves history and present day in poems that explore how there, here, an individual voice in the stark language of lyric poetry, speaks a complex truth and casts a laser light on violence, resilience, survival, and--the heart of this collection--love.

Author: Cynthia Hogue
ISBN-10: 163628065X
ISBN-13: 9781636280653
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.40d