Journal # 5 Blood Dazzler (First Part)

Patricia Smith uses the poems to tell information and deep internal thoughts in the moment of the Hurricane Katrina. She expresses the thoughts through different voice like through the Hurricane Katrina’s perspectives, the voice of former FEMA Director Michael Brown and so on. I like Patricia Smith expresses the things very real no matter things are bad or good. For example, from the prologue, “Weak light, bleakly triumphant….” Real things always can make vivid memory in my mind. Also, I am interested in the form of the part at page of 19—“what was the first sound”. The last sentence in each paragraph is the first sentence in next paragraph. This form makes every part interlock together to attract me to read to the end.