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ISBN: 1-4243-1798-1
Softcover, 44 pages.
$10.00 US / $14.00 CAN
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Katie Bowler
State
Street
In State
Street, Katie Bowler's long
poem about post-Katrina New Orleans,
a salvage attempt comes to represent hope for a ruined city, and for a
young woman's future.
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"State
Street is a remarkable act of
salvage. Katie Bowler’s driven, encompassing
narrative careens with dark humor, anger, grief, and grit through the
surreal Katrina landscape. She’s both in its
midst—a human eye of the storm—and at 'a
great distance,' seeing with compassion and shrewd
clarity. The reader senses Bowler’s faith in her
course throughout—that out of the chaos and detritus and
loss, bolstered by the conjured presences of friends and family, she
can make meaning. Art is what’s rescued;
art becomes the rescuer. Bowler’s 'small
survival' is an impressive achievement." --Debra
Allbery
"A house
with a tricycle perched on its
roof. A man whose life's work lies stuffed into garbage
bags. 'In the middle of this little hell,' Katie Bowler tells
us, 'I find a photo of a banjo.' These are the rare, unbroken
things suddenly turned to relics, haunting proof that New Orleans
remains a living city. State Street is a poem of beautiful
rage and sorrow; it is also in its very making a poem of defiant hope."
--Maurice Manning
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