Streaming Paperback – December 2, 2014

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s book of poetry, Streaming, is beautiful.

When I first heard about this new work, I thought it was music. Maybe it was the title, but from the first brief glimpses I saw, I expected poetry set to music. There is an album of this out there like that, but even with the text of these poems I was not wholly wrong. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's poetry has always struck me as having an inherent musicality to it, and these poems are no exception. Even beyond the music in the words and the arrangement though, there is a constant connection to the music of the world itself. There is a silent music in the patterns of things, both sweet and discordant, and it seems to me that these poems are firmly linked to that. Whether you think I'm totally off base on that or not, I don't think you could reasonably find fault with these poems. This is some richly vivid and elegantly moving writing.