SOURCE: A review of Red Clay: Poems and Stories, in Library Journal, Vol. 117, No. 4, March 1, 1992, p. 91.

In the following review, McKee highly recommends Red Clay: Poems and Stories, praising both its prose and poetry.

“I'm dreaming the old turtle back.” So begins Hogan's journey. For Native Americans, the journey home is what tells them of their history, the mystery of their very lives, and leads them toward fullness and strength. According to Hogan, these poems and tales [in Red Clay] were part of her return, helping her identify with her tribe and the Oklahoma earth, the powers of ancestors and clay: “We are plodding creatures / like the turtle.” The story of Native Americans is about more than ancestry and land; it is as much about the politics and betrayals that led them into the Red Hills. Half this collection is prose, woven together with history both personal and...