Dirty Side of the Storm

An evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water--sensuous, fecund, and destructive. As marsh turns into gulf, identity and consciousness are transformed as well. Serpas's verses invest paradox with her own defiantly spiritual meaning.

Author: Martha Serpas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 90
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.69w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780393331431

About the Author
Serpas, Martha: - Martha Serpasis a native of Galliano, Louisiana. She is currently an associate professor of English at University of Houston. Her previous collection of poems is calledCôte Blanche.