An award-winning poet turns to her Indigenous background to consider loss, memory, and the fate of the planet.
2016 Witter Bynner Fellow Library of Congress
Winner: 2015 Pen Southwest Book Award
Winner: 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award NWCA
Winner: 2015 Wordcrafter of the Year Award WCNWS
Winner: 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards for poetry, Bronze Medal
Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for superior cover art.
Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal for most thought-provoking book.
Longlist: 2015 PEN Open Book Award
Split This Rock recommended poetry books of 2014
Teaching for Change recommended books of 2014
*This book comes with a Rd Klā album download by the same title, of sound art based in these poems. "Blistering and sensual, Allison Hedge Coke's poetry vocals coupled with improvisational sound art by the masterful Kelvyn Bell and Laura Ortman. A furiously intelligent avant-fusion. (Also available on Amazon and iTunes.)
Praise for Allison Adelle Hedge Coke:"Beginning with her first collection, Dog Road Woman, Allison Hedge Coke announced herself as a poet of sound and image whose themes--Native American life and history, colonialism, the earth and its flora and fauna, labor and working-class issues, a fascination with science--would sustain her writings, both poetry and memoir. Streaming continues Hedge Coke's thematic journey while, at the same time, revealing to us a mature poet of imagery whose sonics have shifted toward a be-bop poetics in which rich, complex sound-patterns are essential to the collection's meaning-making and emotional impact." - World Literature Today
"These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty."- Joy Harjo
"When a book of poems contains the pleasure and adventure of a fine soundtrack it should be loudly celebrated. There are many ways to listen to Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's fine collection Streaming. The thing of it is, whether still on the page, or with an undercurrent of musicians and voice, the lyrics ring true. The poem always wins." - Cornelius Eady
From "Carcass":
Split skin stretched over marrowless cage,
encased dry tomb, like those strewn
through this loess reach, cradling past
ever present here, and now you come
walking riverside, bringing sensory thrill
into daylight much like this cervidae
culled morning each waking before
demise. We move this way, catching life
until death captures us, where we rot
into the same dust holding multitudes
before us, and welcoming those beyond.
December 2014
6 x 9 | 168 Pages
Trade Paper
Thanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by VSA Minnesota for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a poet, writer, performer, editor, filmmaker, and activist.
