Download or read book The Dirty Side of the Storm: Poems written by Martha Serpas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.