Night of the Hawk: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781647426583)

When I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to?

Ifá. Nature. Illness. Love. Loss. Misogyny. Aging. Africa. Our wounded planet. In this sweeping yet intensely personal collection, Lauren Martin tells the untold stories of the marginalized, the abused, the ill, the disabled--the different. Inspired by her life's experiences, including the isolation she has suffered as a result both of living with chronic illness and having devoted herself to a religion outside the mainstream, these poems explore with raw vulnerability and unflinching honesty what it is to live apart--even as one yearns for connection.

But Night of the Hawk is no lament; it is powerful, reverential, sometimes humorous, often defiant--"Oh heat me and fill me / I rise above lines"--and full of wisdom. Visceral and stirring, the poems in this collection touch on vastly disparate subjects but are ultimately unified in a singular quest: to inspire those who read them toward kindness, compassion, and questioning.

Author: Lauren Martin
ISBN-10: 1647426588
ISBN-13: 9781647426583
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Foreword 04/18/2024