Please try your request again later. What You Pray Toward. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. At the same time, the audience who prefers the live mic will be seized by the power of her voices, including that of Katrina ‘in full tantrum.’ From a confluence of poetic sensibilities, in a hot political wind, Smith rises above mere topicality to address timeless concerns.” —National Book Award judges’ citation“Hurricane Katrina has receded from the national news, but the destruction it wrought has found testimony in literature. In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. I have been summoned. Patricia Smith’s collection of poems, Blood Dazzler, breaks through this apathy to bring the full weight of Hurricane Katrina’s impact front and center. Really. It is about the will to live, the resilience of the spirit.” —Pedestal Magazine“Blood Dazzler is a shining example of what poetry can do for a country. . Visit her website at www.wordwoman.ws. That description is probably the best review one could give of any book, Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2016.

These poems track the storm from its origins to its eventual transformation into a Category 5 storm. Amazing. Scraping toward the first of you, hungering for wood, walls, unturned skin. Copyright © 2008 by Patricia Smith. Smith defiantly, bravely, imagines the unimaginable.” —Brooklyn Rail“Each poem provides a beautiful and fiercely painful encounter, which commands the full emotional attention of the reader. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. We enter Katrina’s mind. But she was gracious. “Out of the maelstrom of the Slam, Patricia Smith conjures a harsh and elegant poetry in Blood Dazzler. and hopefully with a cd of her reading her own works. Smith's ... Vollständige Rezension lesen, It was a collection of poems I couldn't put down. You will be seared by the grit and spirit of these people, the landscape, and the true force of nature.” —Feminist Review“[Smith] is observant and precise; she captures a moment in our history that many will never forget.” —Coldfront Magazine“This is personification at its best. Blood Dazzlers by Patricia Smith is the fourth collection of her works--enough to merit her one day having a complete works of . Patricia Smith is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Teahouse of the Almighty, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Amazing imagery, great stories. Blood Dazzler is hauntingly beautiful.” —Daily Sentinel“A lyrical, political, sensory and utterly amazing feat that only an artist of [Patricia Smith’s] caliber, heart and imagination could pull off.” —The Root“Powerful, comprehensive and moving. Smith's narrative leaves no human emotion untapped, and no one's story is left untold. How has poetry changed in the past ten years? . More Poems by Patricia Smith. I enthusiastically respond.

This book of poetry does an awesome job of bringing that tragedy to light. In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. The chair, and the ass that's in it. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. . Something went wrong. After all, she is a spoken word artist, a national slam champion, and the pleasure of hearing her read her own words is the only way to truly present a complete collection. Amazing.

Really. I feel you                               ... Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of six books of poetry, a mystery writer, a historian, a journalist, a performer and children's book author.

a resonant and devastating portrait of a vivacious city’s destruction.” —Open Letters, “A necessary read for all Americans.” —Bustle, “Patricia Smith is gifted beyond reason. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was a thousand miles away, eight months pregnant with my first child and obsessed with following the news of the storm. the surging rage of that mad woman Katrina washes over us; we hear the voice of New Orleans itself.” —Small Press Review“[Smith] brings the effects of Katrina right up to the reader’s nose and blows the sweetest and most sour music towards our hearts. Smith is a champion for the dead, and the rest of us, surviving.” —Gently Read Literature“Accessible and daring. Beg, buy or borrow it, but absolutely do make time to read Patricia Smith's stunning collection of poems. . Incendiary Art: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award), The Daughter's Almanac (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry), Teahouse of the Almighty (National Poetry), Simultaneously accessible and daring, these short, fiery verses describe with sorrow and passion the Crescent City just before, during and immediately after Katrina. .
Patricia Smith's words aren't like most poets' words. Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2016.

Following Teahouse of the Almighty (2006), this accomplished work reaffirms her position as one of American’s strongest and most clarion poetic voices. . The devastation of Hurricane Katrina remembered in poems Read More. Smith’s observations are painstakingly revealing and unabashedly critical, especially juxtaposed against the beauty of her terse free verse and formal sestina and rhymed sonnets. There was a problem loading your book clubs. . . Smith's subsequent interviews in the years following Blood Dazzler's publication consistently mention this perception of the dwindling interest in the impact of the hurricane. . As Smith writes of Katrina, so to it might be said of this book, “Never has there been / a wind like this. So powerful. Fluid, impassioned, inexorably profound, she puts fire to the page with such brilliance you don’t even have to like poetry to be arrested by her hand.” —Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder“It is one thing to know the facts of a human tragedy, quite another to know it with the nerves, feel it in your gut. This is less a book about death than about life. .

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. . It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Blood Dazzler is brilliant, original, haunting, and at times so full of complicated ironic humor that you want to laugh, but these astonishing poems "about" Hurricane Katrina, and the mostly black lives who were lost in its fury hurt far too much for any sound--let alone laughter--to emerge out loud as you read these lines. But there was a damning psychological undercurrent with more strength than any storm. August 25, 2019; Start the conversation ; Page 2 of 2. By Amanda Moore. 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.

Blood Dazzler is the narrative of a shameful tragedy, but it is lyrical and beautiful, like a hymn we want to sing over and over until it lives in our collective memory.” —Charleston Post and Courier“Patricia Smith brings an incantatory brilliance to the horror of that hurricane and our nation’s shameful response to it. Hanif Abdurraqib & Angel Nafis vs. AWP Live!

This book will stand out among literary records of Katrina’s devastation.” —Publishers Weekly“[Smith’s] ear for voice and gift for persona poems make for a complex, colloquial, thought-provoking, and nearly minute-to-minute account of the catastrophe that captures the power of nature and the failure of leadership. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Classic poetry book.

Really doesn't get better. Scraping toward the first of you, hungering for wood, walls, unturned skin. She is a 2014 Guggenheim fellow, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner, recipient of a Lannan fellowship and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Sometimes they're just really looooong poems... Ticked off enough to make an appearance... What I did over (the last week of) summer vacation... What Robert Frost Can Teach Performance Poets, VS Live with Patricia Smith at Chicago Humanities Festival. Cue the strings, pass the Kleenex and fetch my pen. Season 3 of VS goes out with a bang! Blood Dazzler, in years to come, may be the definitive collection of poetry to chronicle Hurricane Katrina.” —New Delta Review“A searing portrait of the horrors wrought by Hurricane Katrina.” —Isthmus“Powerful, visceral .
A work of awful beauty.” —Star Tribune“An astonishing poetic narrative.

With shifting and frantic mouth, I loudly loved, Patricia Smith, “Katrina [I was birthed restless and everywhere]” from. www.coffeehousepress.org, Source: Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008). Its throaty / howl has memorized / my name. Patricia Smith: The physical destruction was to be expected. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. My copy is so raggedy; dog-eared and scribbled throughout. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Danez and Franny kick off the new year with Parneshia Jones. Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore women’s history and women’s rights. It's Easter?

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And now, I'm pleased to not introduce.... Common chaos, common ground. Does it come with a set of Ginzu knives...? A rough read for me, but I'm glad I finally did it, Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2017. At the root of it was the fact that most of the people affected by Hurricane Katrina were poor and black, a fact that – in the eyes of many – made the tragedy much less important. Courtesy of Beowulf Sheehan. She is a 2014 Guggenheim fellow, a 2012 fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner, recipient of a Lannan fellowship and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. A Collection of Poems About a Tragic Event, Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2010.

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020. Poems from Yusef Komunyakaa, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Kathy Nilsson, and Anthony Madrid, plus Patricia Smith on Gwendolyn Brooks. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Tracing the fight for equality and women’s rights through poetry. That description is probably the best review one could give of any book. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. A record-setting, four-time national poetry slam champion, she was featured in the film Slamnation, on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, and is a frequent contributor to Harriet, the Poetry Foundation's web log. She has defined poetry by communicating Blood Dazzler. Poetry, the Conqueror of Pimples and All Prepubescent Profundities! Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Poet Patricia Smith's impetus for writing a collection of poetry centered around Hurricane Katrina was largely her perception that "there was a danger that Katrina was going to disappear" (2012:1). . These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers.