Night of the Hawk: Poems

By: Martin, Lauren

Book Overview

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

If . 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647426588
• ISBN13: 9781647426583
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.3"