Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry!
Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California, Look at This Blue examines America's genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril.
Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar
...Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives-human, plant, and animal-in a century marked by climate emergency. Look at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America's continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples,...
