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Reviews
Joy Harjo :
"This fine collection of poetry by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke makes a ladder of songs. The ladder balances between the well-grooved symbol of a warrior on horseback running into the wind for battle, to a Native mother feeding her children when there is nothing. She, too, is a warrior. The poem 'The Change' stands out as a classic of contemporary Native literature. What is presented in this evocative poetry is not a 'struggle for dignity,' but a dignity for struggle."
Maurice Kenny :
"These are hard-nosed narratives of simple people known along the way, Hedge Coke can't disguise her simpatico though she bites with tough images and can pack a walloping metaphor onto her natural speech of muscled language which grazes smoothly across varied terrains."
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