Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke s searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Huron, Metis, and Cherokee heritage. In a style at once elliptical and achingly clear, Hedge Coke details her mother s schizophrenia; the domestic and community abuse overshadowing her childhood; and torments both visited upon her (rape and violence) and inflicted on herself (alcohol and drug abuse during her youth). Yet she managed to survive with her dreams and her will, her sense of wonder and promise...
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke s searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation,...
-These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty.---Joy Harjo
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...
