Bushwhacking Home

Wonderfully invoking artists such as Virginia Woolf and evoking strong female archetypes that have emerged from prehistory through classical Greece and the Renaissance, Lynn Hoggard's poems explore what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a courageous human being at the onset of the twenty-first century. Divided into five parts-Gathering, Base Camp, Markers on the Way, Bushwhacking, and Home-the collection includes poems rooted in physical locations such as the poet's home in Wichita Falls, Texas (Base Camp), or situated in a log cabin in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico (Bushwhacking). But they also ground themselves in spiritual locations that trace the poet's journey into wholeness and maturity: joy, sorrow, humor, love, fear, and death all come into play in the collection, occasionally in surprising ways. Readers alert to the stages of the human condition in an individual's life should appreciate this book, as well as lovers of the art and craft of poetry and anyone who is a spiritual seeker.