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Author Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle.

Title Rock, ghost, willow, deer : a story of survival / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) : illustrations
Series American Indian lives
American Indian lives.
Contents 1. Of Seeds 1 -- 2. From Winds 15 -- 3. When Fire and Water Meet 45 -- 4. Ashes 69 -- 5. Back to the Lands 95 -- 6. Oceans, Rivers 123 -- 7. Crossings 161
Summary "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 Coke's narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writer's 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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Subject Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle.
SUBJECT Coke, Allison Hedge
Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle fast
Subject Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Children of schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography
Indian activists -- United States -- Biography
College teachers -- United States -- Biography
Indian women -- United States -- Biography
Indian poets -- United States -- Biography
POETRY -- American -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Children of schizophrenics
College teachers
Indian activists
Indian poets
Indian women
Poets, American
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003019699
ISBN 0803204086
9780803204089
1280374292
9781280374296
9786610374298
6610374295