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"At once a love song and a dirge to a landscape being swallowed by the waters that define it."--"St. Petersburg Times" 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.Serpas, Martha is the author of 'The Dirty Side of the Storm', published 2008 under ISBN 9780393331431 and ISBN 0393331431.
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