SOURCE: “To Take Care of Life: An Interview with Linda Hogan,” in Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets, Sun Tracks and the University of Arizona Press, 1987, pp. 119-33.

In the following interview, Hogan and Bruchac discuss influences on Hogan's writing and spirituality.

Although she often speaks softly in conversation, Linda Hogan's voice is both eloquent and strong in poems and stories which draw much of their power from the landscapes of southern Oklahoma and Colorado, where she grew up. Her connections to family and her commitments to speaking of her people and for the earth are constant threads running through the four volumes of her poetry published thus far, Calling Myself Home (1978), Daughters, I Love You (1981), Eclipse (1983) and Seeing through the Sun (1985).

This interview was done while Linda was at the Yaddo Artists' Colony on a residency fellowship.

[Bruchac:] What first influenced you to begin writing...