Prologue, Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith Blog #5

The prologue to blood dazzler was not something I could just read once. It took me a couple different sittings on a few different days to make any sense of it. And eventually I … came up with nothing. I believe that on the surface this poem is about an affair. There is a lot of evidence of this in the last page when she talks about being addicted and your mind being blind to your wife and children. I think that there is some connection to the Hurricane, but it isn’t one that I can see. It could be that she is meaning to say how the people of New Orleans are addicted and intoxicated by the city itself, kind of personifying it as their lover. Whatever it means, I find that this poem proved you can write something beautiful while using dirty words.