Blood Dazzler too

I chose to write my poem after Patricia Smith's "What was the first sound" (pages 19-20). I like the style and repetition that she uses throughout to build a tension. Each individual stanza doesn't always have a strong imapct, but each one building on the previous creates a pressure throughout the poem that is released in the end when most of the main points are brought together. I based the context from a book that I read recently called Zeitoun. It is a book by Dave Eggers about a man who moved from Syria to New Orleans and stays behind in Hurrican Katrina to help his neighbors. After being in the town for some time after the hurricane, Zeitoun (the main character) is stopped at a property that he leased and arrested for suspicious activity. The book had an underlying focus on the sketchiness of national crisis relief in the Bush regime. Reading Blood Dazzler reminded me a lot of the book Zeitoun because the both focused on either controversial or unflattering tpics that aren't typically talked about. They both portray New Orleans as a real place, with pretty parts and ugly parts, and in a light that a lot of people probably don't see it in.