Poetry by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
April 1, 2005 6 x 9 92 pages 978-1-56689-171-4
An American Book Award-winning poet explores her working-class heritage against the backdrop of urban poverty.
Drawing on her background as a tobacco sharecropper, factory worker, and fisherwoman, Hedge Coke's poems are as vivid in their telling as they are powerful in their ethos. Off-Season City Pipe lyrically articulates the stark contrast between an ancestry whose strong work ethic, manual skills, and environmental stewardship defined their communities, but whose present circumstances have forced so many into impoverished city living, performing work that fails to provide sustenance for the land or its people.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is the winner of the 2005 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year award for Poetry.
About the Author
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 will join the faculty of Northern Michigan University in January 2005.
Praise for Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Winner of the Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award, 2005