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2018

Format:	Book
Author:	Bedell, Jack, 1966- author.
Title:	No brother, this storm / Jack B. Bedell.
Publisher, Date:	Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	59 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects:	Louisiana -- Poetry.
Other Title:	Poems. Selections
LCCN:	2018024780
ISBN:	9780881466751 0881466751
Other Number:	1043589429
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Over the past few decades, the gulf coast of Louisiana has suffered its share of natural disasters. From hurricanes, to floods, to the gradual destruction caused by coastal erosion, the poems in No Brother, This Storm serve as archives of the hope and resilience found throughout the region. For much of his career, Jack Bedell has paid tribute to the people, landscapes, and traditions of his native South Louisiana. His poems give voice to personal and cultural histories that make up the fabric of life in his home state. No Brother, This Storm continues this tradition, containing lyrics and narratives of hope and beauty in the face of storms, floods, and personal loss. Poem by poem, No Brother, This Storm explores loss, reinvention, and rebirth on personal, natural, and regional levels. More than simple inventory, though, these poems try to recognize strength and hope with every line. Bedell's work honors South Louisiana as it gives voice to its people, places, and ways of life. His poems do their best to find the good in the day, even in the aftermaths of storm and loss.

Table of Contents

1	There and That	p. 1
	Remnant	p. 3
	Revenant	p. 4
	First Kiss	p. 5
	Morning, Vigil	p. 6
	Parabolic	p. 7
	Tabulation	p. 8
	Transposition	p. 9
	Summer, Cottonmouth	p. 10
	Shift, Dunes	p. 11
	Hyperlapse	p. 12
	On Days Like This, Undone	p. 13
	Les Ris	p. 14
	A Wedding, In Rain	p. 15
	Dead Turtle	p. 17
II	Gone to Gulf	p. 19
	Dark Current	p. 21
	A Trick of Light	p. 22
	Elliptic	p. 23
	Barometric	p. 24
	Storm, Grand Isle	p. 25
	Breakwater	p. 26
	Prédire	p. 27
	Frissons	p. 28
	Marsh	p. 29
	Acutance	p. 30
	Just a Beginning	p. 31
	Off Bayou DuLarge	p. 32
	The Argument from Patience	p. 33
	Coastal, Aberration	p. 34
III	Fables	p. 37
	Raconte	p. 39
	Traiteur	p. 40
	Fable, Un Matin	p. 41
	Souvenir du Printemps	p. 42
	Wellfire	p. 43
	Smoke, Mirror	p. 44
	El Tajin	p. 46
	16 Lines for Her Voice	p. 47
	Like from the Tip of a Staff	p. 48
	Caernavon, Mississippi River Flood, 1927	p. 50
	Des Exilés Acadiens dans le Port du Boston, 1755	p. 51
	Père Papineau	p. 52
	Lutins	p. 55
	Coda	p. 57
	About the Author	p. 59

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