[New-Poetry] Re: Hurricanes

[David Graham]

I've only read bits & pieces so far, but Patricia Smith's new collection,
Blood Dazzler, focuses on Hurricane Katrina.  What I've seen so far I like a
lot; I heard her read from the manuscript a couple years ago and was, well,
dazzled.



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On 9/4/08 9:08 AM, "Skip Fox" <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:

> I have one in Snow Monkey: ³Lily.² Wasn¹t going to publish it after Katrina
> since it¹s such a cartoon. (Lily hit over St Landry Parish, LA, where I live.
> Gustav hit us as well. I don¹t yet have power and entire parish is beat up
> pretty badly.) It might be in my next collection.
>  
> If anyone wants a copy of _For To_ which just came out, please send me your
> address. (Anny, yours will come slow boat, etc.)
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> [mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:15 PM
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Hurricanes
>  
> In a message dated 9/3/2008 5:30:02 PM Central Daylight Time,
> rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu writes:
> 
> 
> 
> ...got me to wondering about what poets have written about
> hurricanes, not just ordinary storms.
> 
> Phillip Freneau and Alan Dugan come to mind, and Shakespeare. Byron?  Rupert
> Brooke has a great seasickness poem.
> 
> 
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