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The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the harrowing force of Hurricane Katrina. That natural catastrophe, multiplied by human indifference, incompetence, and greed, is explored as a watershed demonstration of the sociopolitical fissures underlying modern America. At the core of the book is the saga of the Lebage family, beginning with Lemoine Lebage, who fought with Andrew Jackson’s forces in the Battle of New Orleans and then set down roots in the city. Five generations later his descendant Grace Lebage is a singer and poet struggling to restore her life after Katrina has wrecked her ancestral home. Although the enormous, still-unfinished tragedy of Katrina suffuses Poems for New Orleans, human resilience in the face of adversity is its ultimate subject. Here is a New Orleans only glimpsed by the outside world, a place whose creativity, humor, and triumphant spirit no tragedy can overcome. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Although some of the poems here are worth admiring for their play with language and history, most of them come across as something more like prose which has been chopped up for effect, or for humor. And, I admit, the tone of many of them just struck me wrong, to where it felt to me like an outsider writing of what he thinks New Orleans to be and come from, so that at many points I almost felt like the voices of the poems were somewhat superficial, or snarky and condescending. Midway through the book, I felt like some of the more contemporary ones were stronger, but then, at the end, I have to admit that the last sequence in the collection left an incredibly bad taste in my mouth for the collection as a whole, and while I could see what the author was perhaps trying to do... I just didn't like it, either in intention or execution.
So, all told, the truth is that I can't recommend this book, and I doubt I'll revisit it. I've enjoyed Sanders work quite a bit in other collections, but here... well, it wasn't for me. ( )