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Dog
Road Woman
Poems
by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
"These
are songs of righteous anger and utter beauty."
- Joy Harjo
"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.
This is a very formidable task, but it is, finally,
the work we’ve chosen. She’s up to it." - Amiri
Baraka
In
Dog Road Woman, an autobiographical sketch
of a contemporary mixed-blood native life, Allison Adelle
Hedge Coke weaves the shapes and patterns of her heritage
into a magnificent tapestry of prayer, story and song.
Dog Road Woman is winner of a 1998 American
Book Award and a finalist for the 1998 Patterson Poetry
Prize.
Hedge
Coke recounts surviving domestic violence, racism, addiction,
and an extraordinary number of challenges. By drawing
upon a variety of poetic and prosaic forms, she simulates
and transforms the rhythms and sounds of her people.
Dog Road Woman is a sublime presentation of the strength,
beauty, and spirit of the nations.
Allison
Adelle Hedge Coke, of Huron, Tsa la gi, French Canadian
and Portuguese descent, grew up in North Carolina, Canada,
Texas, and throughout the Great Plains. She is the author
of the American Book Award-winning debut poetry collection
Dog Road Woman, the new Off-Season City
Pipe, and the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer.
Instrumental in creating Native American and incarcerated
youth mentorship programs throughout the country, Hedge
Coke now teaches at Northern Michigan University.
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