Katrina
By: by Lyn Lifshin
Publisher: Poetic Matrix Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madera, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780982734308
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Poetry
Description: The Super Bowl of 2010 was what I cell a minor drama. For those involved it is important indeed, and yet, in the grand scheme it passes mostly unnoticed once the game has ended. This time, because of the teams involved, the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts, the game played out in the symbolic realm as well. With the Saints' win many across the country could better join with the still suffering people of New Orleans and the gulf coast; could join again in their loss, grief and rise with compassion to celebrate with them in this minor drama that even for a moment in passing could eclipse the major drama of Katrina.

Can poetry be a place, as well, to rise up in compassion? Lyn Lifshin's voice does this. She speaks of individual dramas, not minor but unique, in the lives of those who experienced the major drama of Katrina. --John Peterson, publisher, from the Preface --Book Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Rosalie Gudry Doste, 100; title: Odessa Hurley was a familiar figure; title: As one man sat in an evacuation center in Baton Rouge; title: One twin, in Chicago, walking horses; title: 86 year old pearline chambers; title: Katrina evacuees in Texas school fight; title: It's dark, it's shirt-soaking hot; title: Sr Bernard Parish and Plaque mines was ground zero; title: I can't even imagine trying to rebuild this; title: Biloxi; title: 130 to 150 bodies a day; title: It was as if all of us were already pronounced dead; title: It was as if all of us were already dead; title: One man got his daughters out of their home; title: Convention Center nightmare; title: Convention Center nightmare II; title: Super Dome nightmare; title: Superdome; title: Superdome Center hell; title: Superdome nightmare; title: Miracle; title: After the center empited out; title: One man remembers his brother's last words; title: The animals, lost, abandoned; title: Pets in the storm; title: Some left huge bags of dog food; title: When it was looking hopeless ...; title: Hearing Robert Wise died; title: Octoberly; title: In the shell of a city; title: The receding flood waters along the streets in Mid City.; title: Across town; title: Boats and cars smashed thur collasped homes; title: Two frail; title: Down in the Fontainebeau area; title: On Dumaine Street in the French Quarter; title: Quarter rats; title: Instead of gumbo and fried oysters and Crawford Bisque; title: Antoines, the restaurant; title: It won't be high cuisine but it will be New Orleans; title: The sun rose higher and turned yellow; title: Return to neighborhoods that aren't; title: Going back; title: Septemberly; title: They didn't ask your name or say kiss my behind; title: An oasis of gas; title: Uprooted, scattered from the familiar; title: September 3; title: People trudged thru the city; title: Beneath a Mississippi bridge; title: You should sleep in the day; title: A few streets away; title: People in the water; title: "Me and my wife, we were living; title: A 47 year old grandmother was rocking a grand child; title: Why some didn't get out; title: About 2 am Friday a jangling phone woke one ...; title: Replace; title: Ain't nobody got money; title: This is all I got; title: People are sleeping in the street; title: At an airport turned field hospital; title: New Orleans airport turned field hospital; title: New Orleans Airport Hospital; title: Some were moaning, others seemed to be lost ...; title: As many of the refugees were moved from filithy; title: Items carried out take on new weight; title: Another woman sat in a chair patiently.