Katrina

I read excerpts from Blood Dazzler, and one of the things that I liked most about the poems was the way Patricia Smith used Personification. In one of the first poems I read, she gave all of the categories their own personalities, listing their names and giving each one it's own individuality. She also made it seem like they shunned their sister-storm Katrina, as if given the chance they wouldn't have done exactly the same. You can almost fit each storm into a certain social category.

In another poem from her book, Katrina was made out to be almost selfish or self absorbed, like a long imprisoned villain finally making a comeback. Katrina seemed spiteful. I got the same feeling from her as if I was reading the journal of a deity, questioning itself and those who oppose it. But at the same time, Smith sows in a sense of chaos and destruction.