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Autobiographical sketch of Hedge Coke, a mixed-blood woman, presented in her debut collection of poems.
Price: $18.00
Pages: 96
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
01 April 1997
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781566890618
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Winner of the 1998 American Book Award
First Finalist of the 1988 Paterson Poetry Prize
“Hedge Coke’s dense narrative poems are crowded with memorable characters and situations. . . . She is a welcome new voice in American poetry.” —Jessica Hagedorn
“Allison Hedge Coke is a skilled, spirited, young poet who is transforming and honing her social and personal experience and reflection to speak with the voice of a whole people.” —Amiri Baraka
“These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty.” —Joy Harjo
“These poems have so much to say that they can’t talk fast enough, and this poet is not afraid to speak the dangerous truth.”—Linda Hogan
First Finalist of the 1988 Paterson Poetry Prize
“Hedge Coke’s dense narrative poems are crowded with memorable characters and situations. . . . She is a welcome new voice in American poetry.” —Jessica Hagedorn
“Allison Hedge Coke is a skilled, spirited, young poet who is transforming and honing her social and personal experience and reflection to speak with the voice of a whole people.” —Amiri Baraka
“These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty.” —Joy Harjo
“These poems have so much to say that they can’t talk fast enough, and this poet is not afraid to speak the dangerous truth.”—Linda Hogan
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is the author of the American Book Award-winning debut collection Dog Road Woman and the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow Deer (University of Nebraska Press). Growing up in North Carolina, Canada, and throughout the Great Plains, Hedge Coke earned her MFA at Vermont College and joined the faculty of Northern Michigan University in January 2005.