Off-Season City Pipe

by Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle

• ISBN13: 9781566891714
• ISBN10: 156689171X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Coffee House Pr

Summary

In poems as beautiful in their telling as they are powerful in their ethos, poet and memoirist Hedge Coke draws upon her background as a tobacco sharecropper, factory worker and fisherwoman, articulating the stark contrast between a tradition of labor that instills pride and builds strong communities with the modern-day reality of backbreaking work that fails to provide sustenance for the land or its people. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, of Huron, Tsa la gi, French Canadian and European descent, is the author of the American Book Award-winning debut collection Dog Road Woman and the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow Deer. She has been instrumental in creating Native American mentorship programs throughout the country and will join the faculty of Northern Michigan University in 2005.

Table of Contents

1 Annular Eclipse, 1994	1	(4)
2 Resonance in Motion	5	(12)
The Change	10	(7)
3 Off-Season	17	(14)
Sorrel Run	19	(2)
Breaking Horses	21	(4)
Red Stone Panther	25	(2)
Putting Up Beans	27	(4)
4 Packin' Four Corner Nabs	31	(20)
The Dove	36	(2)
#4 Southwest Chief/L.A. Central	38	(2)
Baggage	40	(2)
Self-Immolation	42	(2)
Wachovia Wilds	44	(2)
This He Learned by Being American	46	(5)
5 Sleeping in a Hundred-Year-Gone Brothel
Street Confetti	51	(1)
Eternity Safeway	52	(4)
City Pipe	56	(1)
Valencia St., Mission District	57	(1)
Voucher, Voucher	58	(3)
Allen Ginsberg Comments on Joe Hipp, 1994	61	(3)
A White Lady Speaks	64	(7)
6 Wheat	71	(8)
Pulp and Thick Skin	72	(2)
Casting Vessel	74	(5)
7 Waiting for the Last Lunar Eclipse, 2004	79	(4)
Acknowledgments	83