Description

Coffee House Press, paperback

Publication Date: March 29, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California,Look at This Blueexamines Americas 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 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened liveshuman, plant, and animalin a century marked by climate emergency.Look at This Blueinsists upon a reckoning with and redress of Americas continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples, as Hedge Cokes cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.