Off-season city pipe : work

Summary: "Drawing on her background as a tobacco sharecropper, factory worker, and fisherwoman, poet and memoirist Hedge Coke fills the void of Native American working-class literature with poems as beautiful in their telling as they are powerful in their ethos. Off-Season City Pipe articulates the stark contrast between an ancestry whose work ethic and environmental stewardship defined their communities, but whose children find themselves in a cycle of poverty, persevering in the face of jobs that fail to provide sustenance for the land or its people."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781566891714 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 156689171X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
84 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; St. Paul, MN : Distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2005.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Annular eclipse, 1994 -- 2. Resonance in motion -- The change -- 3. Off-season -- Sorrel run -- Breaking horses -- Red stone panther -- Putting up beans -- 4. Packin' four corner nabs -- The dove -- #4 southwest chief/L.A. Central -- Baggage -- Self-immolation -- Wachovia wilds -- This he learned by being American -- 5. Sleeping in a hundred-year-gone brothel -- Street confetti -- Eternity safeway -- City pipe -- Valencia St., Mission District -- Voucher, voucher -- Allen Ginsberg comments on Joe Hipp, 1994 -- A white lady speaks -- 6. Wheat -- Pulp and thick skin -- Casting vessel -- 7. Waiting for the last lunar eclipse, 2004.