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Blood Dazzler (2008)

by Patricia Smith(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

156689218X (ISBN13: 9781566892186)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Coffee House Press

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 number of poems, effectively plumbing the depths of female rage and power without making a mockery of it or taking anything away from the punch. There are poems from the point of view from the ghosts, the dead victims, as well as those left behind, the living victims. Smith plays with form, there's a sestina here written from the point of view of Ethel Freeman, the woman whose body was left in her wheelchair outside the Superdome for days that will just rip your heart to shreds as you read it. The... morere are also a grouping of poems about a dog named Luther B and his owner M'dear that combine horror and humor in a way that makes you look at loss differently, and remind you that death touches us in animal form as well as human. Excellent book.
review 2: This charming collection of poems gets more troubling as one reads on. Smith carefully analyzes the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina in a variety of persona poems: from the anthropomorphized perspective of the hurricane itself, to the drowned elderly victims in a nursing home, to the lost family dog.It accurately says a lot about the people of New Orleans and their continuous struggle to survive after one of America's most frightening (and frighteningly ignored) disasters. less

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