Look at This Blue
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 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, as Hedge Coke's cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.
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Been a while since I've read a poetry book. The author came to my college last year to give a reading and speak for a little bit. Super cool person and a really good poem about endangered species and human atrocities committed against indigenous, Asian, and other peoples of color in California. Damn, Cali did some bad stuff.
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