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| Poems for New Orleans | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Sanders
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 994139
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1556437420
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556437427
ASIN: 1556437420
Publication Date: August 19, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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Exacting Eye Amid the Tumult August 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sanders looks deep into the history of a city with a colorful and at times duplicitous past never forgetting to let his own charm for her seductions seep through in his lines. As an outsider looking in, Sanders remains respectfully both enraged by the ongoing tragedy of repairing the city and amused by the resilience of its citizens. Here is the voice that was missing amid all the clamor to not rebuild this great city: a voice that is not "New Orleans," but one that sings for New Orleans holding the rhythm so as not to let silence prevail.
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