The dirty side of the storm / Martha Serpas
- Author:
- Serpas, Martha
- Published:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2007]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2007
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- 89 pages ; 22 cm
- Contents:
- Witness Tree 15 -- The Water 19 -- A Corollary 21 -- Creation 22 -- The Dirty Side of the Storm 23 -- The Discipline of Nonfulfillment 24 -- Prasada 26 -- Strangers Hotel 27 -- Bayou Lafourche 28 -- Fais Do-Do 29 -- Ordinary Time 31 -- Bully Camp Road 34 -- Ghost Trees 36 -- Pushing the Channel 37 -- Catching the Bridge 38 -- Sunrise 40 -- Reburial at Sea 41 -- Hard Rain 42 -- Psalm at High Tide 44 -- Returning 45 -- Faith in Florida 48 -- No-Name Storm 50 -- To the Landlady 52 -- Formica 53 -- Undertaking History 55 -- Christmas at Coushatta 56 -- Millennial Birthday 58 -- Conveyance 60 -- No Matter What Happens Everything Will Be All Right 62 -- The Sinking of the Southern Belle 64 -- Skinned 65 -- The Pomegranate 66 -- After Theism 68 -- An Act of Mercy 69 -- Sand 70 -- Gaze 71 -- White Clover 72 -- Tinsel 73 -- The Boat Shed 74 -- The Morning After the Parade Has Passed 75 -- Decreation 76 -- Eulogy 81 -- A Future with Hope 83 -- Poem Found 87.
- Summary:
- In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water. Her verses grapple with grieving a lost home and advocating for change. Most of the book is set in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary (Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes), Louisiana. "Poem Found" was written in response to the levee breaches caused by Hurricane Katrina.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 039306266X (hardcover)
9780393062663 (hardcover)
9780393331431 (pbk.)
0393331431 (pbk.)
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