Description
When I have wandered
long enough
what am I still beholden to?
Ifa. 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.
About the Author
Lauren Martin is a psychotherapist, poet, and devoted Iyanifa. She studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She spent years writing without submitting her work due to a long shamanic journey that led her to both Ifa and the writing of this collection of poems. Lauren lives in Oakland, California.
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- Contributor: Lauren Martin
- Imprint: She Writes Press
- ISBN13: 9781647426583
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 139x215mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: She Writes Press
- Release Date: 2024-05-14
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Lauren Martin is a psychotherapist, poet, and devoted Iyanifa. She studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She spent years writing without submitting her work due to a long shamanic journey that led her to both Ifa and the writing of this collection of poems. Lauren lives in Oakland, California.
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