Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems

In this celebration of life in death, Mona Lisa Saloy captures the solemn grief, ongoing struggle, and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. She knows the music of the neighborhood spoken and sung in affirmation of what is genuine and hopeful, as well as the despair of destruction that nature and politics heaped upon The Crescent City. Saloy's details of down-home activities and use of local expressions convey the many cultures and voices of this unique place. In this ode to New Orleans there is joy and hope, and a passionate call to join the resilient Second Line.

ISBN-13: 9781887160025

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Black Bayou Press

Publication Date: 10-01-2021

Pages: 130

Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

Saloy, Mona Lisa: - Author, folklorist, essayist, and poet, Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy is professor of English at Dillard University. She previously published Red Beans & Ricely Yours, which won the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize in 2006. Saloy's literary voice represents the African-American and the New Orleans Creole cultural experience.