· Blood Dazzler. By Patricia Smith. Hardcover, 90 pages. Coffee House Press. List price: $ SIBLINGS. Hurricanes, Arlene learned to dance backwards in Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · Patricia Smith, however, has found her own way to memorialize them: Poetry. In , she released Blood Dazzler, a collection about New Orleans and Author: Cristina Arreola. Blood Dazzlers by Patricia Smith is the fourth collection of her works--enough to merit her one day having a complete works of and hopefully with a cd of her reading her own works. 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/5(70).
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith Posted: Ma | Author: sirjeremyball | Filed under: poetry review | Leave a comment Coffee House Press, ISBN Paperback: 77pp. Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler is an impossible to make action movie, cleverly disguised as a collection of poems. The prologue, a poem entitled "And Then She Owns You," establishes New Orleans as a. Patricia Smith, Melissa Tuckey Patricia Smith, a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.doorway.ru), is the author of four books of poetry, including Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection, winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Blood Dazzler, a book of poems chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, will be. You can order Blood Dazzler here. Book cover photo: Hurricane Katrina, NASA. Book cover photo: Hurricane Katrina, NASA. Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art ; winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and NAACP Image Award; and finalist for the
In a world full of tragedy, it is easy to feel removed from it, to see it as a distant echo. 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. These poems track the storm from its origins to its eventual transformation into a Category 5 storm. 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 This is less a book about death than about life. Patricia Smith, however, has found her own way to memorialize them: Poetry. In , she released Blood Dazzler, a collection about New Orleans and the people of the city who were devastated by.
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