Poem By Linda Hogan

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In her poem, Linda Hogan describes her memory and feeling about her family. She explores the complexity of her heritage in the poem. According to Linda Hogan, she got her face and body forms from her mother, "I watch my face take on her lines" and "she left the large white breasts"; from he father she got brown eyes, "I take his brown eyes"; from her grandparents she learned to be quiet and to respect and to believe in Indian traditions, "I learned to kill a snake when you're begging for rain", "to eat the flesh of deer so you will be swift and travel over many miles." The Chickasaws were a nomadic tribe who were always on the move, so Linda inherited from this tribe to follow in the stick's directions, "tribe has always followed a stick that