SOURCE: A review of Seeing through the Sun, in World Literature Today, Vol. 60, Summer, 1986, p. 506.

In the following review, Berner praises not only the themes of Hogan's poetry in Seeing through the Sun, but also its structure—the movement from anguish to wisdom.

One of the difficulties in studying the work of the younger generation of American Indian poets is that too much of it is available only in small-press editions and poetry quarterlies. For this reason, the University of Massachusetts Press is to be commended for publishing [Seeing through the Sun], a collection by one of the best of these writers.

Linda Hogan is a poet who happens to be Indian, which may not be the same thing as being an “Indian poet.” In other words, she seems to be concerned less with expressing recognizably Indian themes than with producing poems which bridge the gap between her...