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Chargement... Blood Dazzler: Poemspar Patricia Smith
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. One of the best collections of poetry collections of poetry from an United States poet that I've read in a while. Thematically it reminds me a bit of Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology. it is very direct which is something I always personally appreciate in poetry. ( ) Patricia's poetic meditation on Hurricane Katrina is an exploration of a city and its people reflected in the awe and terror of a relentless storm. It is a voyage into the consciousness of New Orleans, with the minds of its people conceived and explored by Smith's pen. It is also a meeting with the voice of the destroyer. Katrina is turned into a raging demigod of nature with something to prove. At last, unavoidably, it is an indictment of our government's failures in handling her. Smith's amazing ability to adopt different voices proves vital here, enabling her to compose a collection of portraits that offers the reader a unique and unflinching view into a horrific and shameful event in American history. Much like Whitman's treatment of the Civil War, Smith's Blood Dazzler will one day stand as an insightful and essential document, a resource inextricably bound up with its subject. A rough and powerful engagement of Hurricane Katrina's existence and destruction, these poems explore the voices and the culture affected by Katrina and those affecting her path and legacy. Smith's varied structures and poems are a re-journeying through the days of the hurricane and through the injustices surrounding New Orleans in the wake of the hurricane. Her deliberate exploration and careful choices throughout the work, along with a sparse inclusion of quotes from politicians and news broadcasts, make this work come together in a collage of meaning that goes beyond simple documentation or interpretation. Smith has a magic with language, and it combines with belief and outrage and love here to make a collection that forms not only the emotional biography of a storm, but an urgent remembering and act of witnessing. In the end, this is a poetry collection not quite like any other--necessary, powerful, filled with beauty and fear, and worth reading. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched it on television. Assuming the voices of flailing politicians, the dying, their survivors, and the voice of the hurricane itself, Smith follows the woefully inadequate relief effort and stands witness to families held captive on rooftops and in the Superdome. She gives voice to the thirty-four nursing home residents who drowned in St. Bernard Parish and recalls the day after their deaths when George W. Bush accompanied country singer Mark Willis on guitar: The cowboy grins through the terrible din, *** And in the Ninth, a choking woman wails Look like this country done left us for dead. An unforgettable reminder that poetry can still be "news that stays news," Blood Dazzler is a necessary step toward national healing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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