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Title

Hurricane blues : poems about Katrina and Rita / editors: Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout.

Publication

Cape Girardeau, MO : Southeast Missouri State University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Kolin, Philip C.
• Swartwout, Susan.

Description

181 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Hurricane Blues" is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. This collection not only records history but serves in some way as a balm, a relief effort toward the inevitable reconstruction of the region. Accordingly, all proceeds from Hurricane Blues will go toward the relief effort. This is poetry as bread, cast upon the surface of the waters.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Poetry
• Hurricane Rita, 2005 > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• "All proceeds go to hurricane relief"--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Prelude : Memories of Katrina -- Looming : The Flood, 2005 -- Before the Storm -- Bar Eye Storm -- After Tropical Storm Cindy -- The Times-Picayune as Prophet -- Big Wheel Keeps On Turning -- Shahid Devastates Louisiana -- How to Shop for a Hurricane -- Rita -- What the Waters Said -- Distant Predictions -- Ten Days and Two Thousand Miles -- In Wisconsin, Hardly a Breeze -- Landing : Sorry -- The Katrina Dance -- Storm Surge -- Mother Nature Gone Wild -- Water Table -- Tenements -- Hurricane Kwame Offers His Two Cents -- Elegy in Thirteen Winds -- City Under Siege, Under Water : New Orleans Triptych -- In the Theater -- Three Modes of Katrina -- I See a City in Tears -- How to lose your hometown in seven days -- Everywhere, Water -- Graupel -- Katrina Notes -- Watery Ground -- Alarm, Set to the News Channel -- When the Alexandria Quartet Became a Ragtime Band -- New Orleans (Big Stuff) -- Hurricane Katrina -- Death of an American City -- Slaver Superdome -- In Praise of Mourning Doves -- Projection -- The Grateful Gratitude Blues -- Latin Roots -- New Orleans Has Collapsed! -- Aftermath : A Street Called Humanity -- Thursday's refrain -- Dear Latifah -- Chorus -- Basin Street -- Elegy for the Hurricane Victim -- A Peripheral Blow -- Rescuers...pushed aside the dead -- Relief -- Gulf Bodies -- Please Don't Kill Me -- The Woman on Mexico Street -- Salvage -- Silence Speaks Louder than a Poet's Words -- Broken Limbs -- Blue Monday -- Miss Mary -- Government Cheese -- The Storm Seduction -- While Water Touched the Eaves -- FEMA Cities -- After the Flood -- Katrina Watch -- invisible ray # 28 -- Far from the Big Muddy -- When I Saw -- The Yellow School Buses -- Pretend -- Mister Betwixt and Between -- Washboard -- Something Big and Aloud Is Coming To Blow All My Burdens Away -- New Orleans -- Katrina Tankas -- Warning from La Papessa to the Tourists -- Rescue -- Mama's Gardenias -- Mourning : The Sinking of New Orleans -- After the Waters -- Five Miles South of Abbeville -- The Fourth Rose of Sharon -- Requiem for Amandine -- Jazz Memorial -- Vieux Carré -- Resolutions : Canto of Rebuilding -- Puzzle -- After Katrina: The Bodies Are Rising -- How to Host a Hurricane: Gov Love, American Style -- Things To Do while You Wait for the Roofer -- Sweet as King Cake -- After the Hurricanes -- Lessons of the Flood -- Is for, to Hold -- Continuous Revelation to Peter Cooley in Post Katrina New Orleans -- For Katrina, with Love -- The Rest of the Forgotten -- Sunrise Blues -- The Source of Nightmare -- Caesura -- Cold Hard Facts in the Midst of Swirl -- After Katrina: A Prayer -- Moving Life -- When the Waters Fall -- After Katrina -- Solstice: After Katrina -- To a Brainy Child in Distress -- Survivor at rest -- A Thousand Saxophones.

ISBN

• 0976041359 (pbk.)
• 9780976041351

LCCN

^^2007272636

OCLC

78794799

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library