SOURCE: A review of Seeing through the Sun, in Booklist, Vol. 82, No. 7, December 1, 1985, p. 525.

In the following review, Perisi commends Hogan's ability to use both ordinary language and heightened imagery to create vivid poetry.

With remarkable freshness and clarity, Linda Hogan seems, in these poems [Seeing through the Sun], not only to have compressed the experiences of her personal life span, but also to have distilled the heritage of her people, the Chickasaw Indians. In direct, colloquial speech heightened by unexpected but exact images drawn effortlessly, inevitably from nature, she relates the daily events of being a woman, mother, sister, and member of her tribe, through days and nights filled with care, disappointment, love, injustice, injury, and, yes, a genuine sense of joy. She vividly brings to life the realities of the natural world, its seasons, and their effects, observed with precision and understood with uncanny sympathy; time...