Books by Patricia Smith
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review 1: Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler does everything you'd want a book of poetry about Hurricane Katrina to be. It's gruesome and honest, but there's also a touch of the wit and humor in the darkness that the people of New Orleans are known for. The hurricane itself is personified in a...
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review 1: I am in awe of this book; from the very first poem, which starts hard, echoes from Blood Dazzler, I felt a set tone, a very Patricia Smith tone that told me instead of warned me about what was to come.A memoir-narrative poetic sequence, the book invokes Smith's parents and their ...