Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
ISBN: 9780803204089
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Nebraska Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Indian poets; Indian women; College teachers; Indian activists; Children of schizophrenics; Poets American;

A name creates life patterns, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes, which form and shape a life; my life, like my name, must have been formed many times over then handed to me to realize. Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Hedge Cokes narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writers searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off-reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Cherokee and Huron heritage. In a style at once elliptical and achingly clear, Hedge Coke describes her schizophrenic mother and the abuse that often overshadowed her childhood; the torments visited upon her, the rape and physical violence; and those she inflicted on herself, the alcohol and drug abuse. Yet she managed to survive with her dreams and her will, her sense of wonder and promise undiminished.


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