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Ford, Katie (Poet)

Colosseum : poems / by Katie Ford.

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2008.

x, 60 pages ; 22 cm

Poet Katie Ford, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. With gravity and resplendence, Colosseum confronts ruin in the ancient world and in the living moment, from historical accounts and from firsthand experience. Displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Katie Ford returns this powerful report attesting to the storm's ferocity and its aftershock. Ford examines other catastrophes-those biblical, obscured by time, and those that play out daily, irrefutably, in the media. Colosseum is an essential, moving book in its insistence that our fates are intertwined and that devastation does not discriminate.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Poetry.

New Orleans (La.) -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60).

Beirut -- I. Storm -- Flee -- Tell Us -- Rarely -- Earth -- Ark -- Fish Market -- Vessel -- He Said -- Tolstoy's Storm -- Snow -- II. Vessel -- Shape of Us -- Crossing America -- Division -- Earth -- Injury -- Vessel Bends the Water -- Tess -- Singing -- Flag -- What We Get -- Spring Wish -- Coliseum Theater -- Cemetery -- Raised Voice -- Koi -- III. Colosseum -- Overture -- Colosseum -- Snakes -- Rose -- Duomo -- Easter Evening -- Earth -- Divining Stick -- Seawater, and Ours a Bed Above It -- Earth, This Firelit Lantern.

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