48 Pages
by
Routledge
48 Pages
by
Routledge
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"Requiem for New Orleans" is a lament for the destruction of a great city and scorn for those who allowed it to happen. Mike Sharpe writes: "New Orleans was not destroyed by a hurricane but by abandonment." Above all, "Requiem for New Orleans" is a meditation on our ability to overcome loss. It is an interweaving of biblical cadences, black idiom, standard American speech, jazz, and the caustic... Read more
I. Requiem; II. New Orleans, Where Do You Come From?; III. Katrina; IV. Stay Back; V. In Iraq; VI. Death; VII. Where Are You, God?; VIII. Entr'acte, Part 1: Walking on the Sunny Side of the Street; Entr'acte, Part 2:...and on the Shady Side of the Street; IX. Diaspora; X. Preamble to the Constitution; XI. Jeremiah in New Orleans; XII. A Dream and an Awakening; Notes on Quotations and Acknowledgments; Postscript; About the Author.
Biography
Mike Sharpe
