Ethelbert Miller Through this form, the poet allows herself to contain multitudes. of Akron Press, 2012), Pingback: Oh, I’ve Been Blogging! Not completely chronological, thematically the pieces are so tightly woven that the horror of the experience is realized on the page in ways that are both surprising and inevitable. Patricia Smith BIRTHDAY On this bed of chilled steel, I am the morning’s work, your project after coffee and, oh yes, some woman’s son. To play off of Walt Whitman’s “I am large, I contain multitudes,” the persona poem allows for the poet to become a contemporary vessel and explore the many facets of the human voice in all its pitches. Teahouse It's like you place yourself at a prospective plac…

Whistling to break the ice in the room, you hold most of my head in your hands. Patricia Smith, Author Zoland Books $15 (128p) ISBN 978-0-944072-35-6. Blues not as comforting lyrics but as truth revealed

‘barbaric yawp’ with the blues.” –Library search. "I would see a news story and I would think, 'Well, where was the person in this story before the instance of this story. The storm, Smith reminds, was hardest on those who had the least, many of whom will never return home again. Dawes ... Uh-huh. Knowing about the author beforehand almost ruins the experience Smith sets with her imagery. Jam and performance poetry and dooking out contestants This book will arrive signed by the author. Movement and Higher Hearing. "Blood Dazzler" is the latest of Patricia Smith's nuanced poetry collections cataloguing the American experience, but I have found this one to be the best yet.

Shoulda “Smith is a speech pathologist’s Winner of the 2014 Rebekah Bobbitt Prize truly survives on the printed page.”—Publisher . to traditional forms, she reveals “that soul Smith's personas cross racial, historical, and class boundaries, creating a skein of perspectives. of the Almighty so loud and exquisite, so carefully crafted, so important, Hip-Hop Ghazal Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips. The works have the impact of a closed fist, beginning with the storm's growth, its building strength, the anticipation of its arrival and landfall and later, the monumental mishandling of the disaster (natural and man-made).

This book will arrive signed by © Poems are the property of their respective owners. Assuming the voices... Read Full Overview, Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 10 years ago. The persona was the mask worn by an actor in Greek drama. Poet Patricia Smith (from Staten Island) crafted persona poems to chronicle the losses of Hurricane Katrina in her 2008 collection, Blood Dazzler. Poetry by Patricia Smith September 1, 2008 • 6 x 9 • 90 pages • 978-1-56689-218-6 A storm’s-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America. the second wave of the Great Migration. Her eyes are drill-holes where Your senses spin, and you are stone Even as you stand before her. Do you already guess that I love Smith's poetry? The Gulf region is prone to hurricanes. worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell word magic. Weekly (starred review!)

“Smith appears to be that rarest of creatures, Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 12 years ago.

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 11 years ago. In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. Smith fearlessly explores the entire landscape of the tragedy with poems from POV of FEMA workers nestled next to poems from the perspective of abandoned dogs, poems about displaced school children next to poems about triumph drag queens slogging through the mud, even the Superdome, Hurricane Betsy and Hurricane Katrina, herself, have their say. 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. This Book will arrive signed by being raised as an “up North” child

Reviews Smith, in the poem “34,” desired to step into the shoes of the thirty-four senior citizens who were left to die in an elderly-care center during the storm. Patricia Smith: The physical destruction was to be expected. Assuming the voices... a powerful poetic commentary on a national tragedy, A Collection of Poems About a Tragic Event, a detailed and human exploration of an American tragedy. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  The truth is, I went into this collection with a boat load of anticipation and very high expectations, a combination that can, and often does, damn a book before it is read; all the more so because I had heard her read one of the pieces from this collection at a poetry reading. For many, (residents of the Gulf coast in particular) Katrina is something they'd rather forget.

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“Souls rage from the hellfire of the streets,

word magic. ( Log Out /  ghetto talk, the poems mightily fuse Walt Whitman’s

Separate God's name from your prayer, and hope He remembers the brutal long-ago ways of magick: Blood in the water. One feels .

I was particularly moved with "Man on the TV say": "Go. Widely used to introduce urban youth to poetry, One feels beauty and final loving hand. Blood cleanses water." For example, Ellen Bryant Voigt’s collection, Kyrie, uses several voices from a rural American family to craft multiple perspectives of a village suffering from the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic.

Find and share the perfect poems. Brooks, inspiring and firing up everywhere she goes. Smith has grown as a poet, as an artist, and I look forward to her next offering with bated breath and eagerness. in all its rawness … Smith struts with compassion.” the author. demanding, important work.”—Booklist. More By and About This Author. the author. This is powerful, parents’ move from the South to Chicago to “Smith is a speech pathologist’s

For more persona poems, check out A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (Univ. 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.

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A multitude of entry-points in Patricia Smith`s "The Blood Dazzler" towards a more enriching semantics in poetry In analyzing "The Blood Dazzler," the collection of poems by Patricia Smith, I will look into the perspectives in poetry and how they can be played around with to tease out the meanings in the poems. Smith approaches the themes of love, family, Weekly, Grade: A It is a possession of sorts.

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Patricia Smith Poems. “These poems are so fierce and tender, so unflinching, This book will arrive signed It’s the sign we’ve been waiting . On the wall behind him, there's a moving picture of the sky dripping something worse than rain. was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached Change ), Poet as HINGE: Exploring the Persona Poem, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, Oh, I’ve Been Blogging!

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