Nathalie Quintane gets at the myth of Joan of Arc to reveal her double life--warrior on the surface and austere saint underneath.
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In June the Labyrinth
Hogue strikes a profound chord in this elliptical sequence; ‘you will not get lost,’ though ‘you will feel lost,’ she explains, as she leads us on a quest for healing, forgiveness, and love.--Wendy Barker
Revenance
Revenant is “ghost” in French, and in her eighth collection, Revenance, Cynthia Hogue coins a word to consider large questions of life and afterlife.
Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem)
Generating an exciting poetic dialogue that is as insightful as it is eloquent and creative, this combined poem and complementary philosophical analysis is an astute rendering of the intersection of intellect and language as an art form.
Or Consequence
The poems in Cynthia Hogue’s collection, Or Consequence, range from meditations on “freedom” to poems crossing cultural and formal boundaries.
When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina
Poet Cynthia Hogue and photographer Rebecca Ross convey the experience of a cross section of evacuees, their journeys from the Gulf Coast to the Arizona desert, and their efforts to make new lives.
The Incognito Body
In the title series meditating on the “gift of illness,” the self wakes up one day to find that her body has been replaced by an “incognito body” in pain.
Flux
In the tradition of Dickinson and H.D., Flux opens out into visionary language and the never-ending search for transcendence.
The Never Wife
"In poem after poem...The Never Wife arrives at wisdom...with flawless courage." -Agha Shahid Ali
The Woman in Red
In this collection of narrative poetry, Cynthia Hogue layers dream-like images over one another to convey a sense of what it means to be a woman.
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