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Hurricane Party is an original and rewarding work, a masterful follow-up to Big Muddy River of Stars, and a livewire, compelling contribution to American poetry. No other poet sounds like Pelegrin, and that's the sure sign of a writer at the top of her game.-Elton Glaser

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	05 octobre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781937378592
Langue	English

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HURRICANE
PARTY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Akron Series in Poetry
Mary Biddinger, Editor
Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party
Matthew Guenette, American Busboy
Joshua Harmon, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
David Dodd Lee, Orphan, Indiana
Sarah Perrier, Nothing Fatal
Oliver de la Paz, Requiem for the Orchard
Rachel Dilworth, The Wild Rose Asylum
John Minczeski, A Letter to Serafin
John Gallaher, Map of the Folded World
Heather Derr-Smith, The Bride Minaret
William Greenway, Everywhere at Once
Brian Brodeur, Other Latitudes
Jeff Gundy, Spoken among the Trees
Alison Pelegrin, Big Muddy River of Stars
Roger Mitchell, Half/Mask
Ashley Capps, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, The Book of Accident
Clare Rossini, Lingo
Vern Rutsala, How We Spent Our Time
Kurt Brown, Meg Kearney, Donna Reis, Estha Weiner, eds.,
Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews
Sharmila Voorakkara, Fire Wheel
Dennis Hinrichsen, Cage of Water
Lynn Powell, The Zones of Paradise
Titles published since 2003.
For a complete listing of titles published in the
series, go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry
ALISON PELEGRIN
HURRICANE
PARTY

The University of Akron Press
Akron, Ohio
Copyright © 2012 by Alison Pelegrin
All rights reserved • First Edition 2011 • Manufactured in the United States of America. All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the Publisher, the University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325–1703.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Pelegrin, Alison. Hurricane party / Alison Pelegrin. p. cm.—(Akron series in poetry) ISBN 978–1-935603–08–5 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978–1-935603–09–2 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3566.E363H87 2011 811.’54—dc22 2011008198
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z 39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). ∞
Cover: Water Sky , by Damara Kaminecki, copyright © 2008. Used with permission. Cover design: Amy Freels
Hurricane Party was designed and typeset in Minion, with Futura display, by Amy Freels and Zac Bettendorf. Hurricane Party was printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by BookMasters of Ashland, Ohio.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Some of the poems in this collection first appeared in other publications: “Katrina Scribendi” in 32 Poems ; “Hurricane Party,” “Blue Balls,” “River of Voices,” and “The Family Jewels” in Barn Owl Review ; “Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots” in Blackbird ; “Funky from Now On” in Brilliant Corners ; “Love Poem with Schooner and Ruins” in Cave Wall ; “Where Y’at” and “Praying with Strangers” in Copper Nickel ; “Dispatch to Runaway the Younger” and “Little Song for Kimberly” in Country Dog Review ; “Our Lady of Prompt Succor” in Crab Creek Review ; “Shadow Ode,” “Raw Oysters with my Rock Star Husband,” “Foosball, Shania, and Thou,” and “Joy Ride on the Gretna Ferry” in Diode ; “Helicopter Hands” in Ducts.org ; “Stupid Praise” in Image ; “A Brief History of My Life” and “50-cent Words” in The Journal ; “The Last Holdout” in Linebreak ; “Ode to Things” in New Plains Review ; “Pit Bull Pastoral” in The Normal School ; “Invitation to the Gretna Royals” in Oxford American ; “The Day the Music Stopped” in Measure ; “Tubing on the Bogue Chitto” in The Pinch ; “Tabasco in Space” in Ploughshares ; “Louisiana,” and “Ode to Booze” in River Styx ; “Something in the Water” in The Rumpus ; “Blessings for a Nemesis” in Southern Humanities Review ; “Daughter of the Confederacy” in Southern Women’s Review ; “The Creeps” in Southern Poetry Review ; “Cumpleaños” and “Louisiana Crude” in Sou’wester ; “Mid-City Tours” in Sugar House Review ; “Bestiary of the Bayou State” in Valparaiso Poetry Review.
I want to offer a sincere thank you to the people behind the scenes who offered support. The generosity of the National Endowment for the Arts and sabbatical leave from Southeastern Louisiana University helped me to begin these poems. Funding from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund and the encouragement of journal editors and poet friends, especially Sandy Longhorn, helped along the way. The University of Akron Press has been wonderful to work with (again). Special thanks to Amy Freels for her flourishes. My editor Mary Biddinger has cheered me from the beginning—I am lucky to have her in my corner.
Thanks to my family, especially my mom.
Hubby Bryan Davidson—I can’t do it without you.
for Ben & Sam
Contents

River of Voices
Louisiana
A Brief History of My Life
The Creeps
Mid-City Tours
Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots
Burying the Hatchet
Joy Ride on the Gretna Ferry
Daughter of the Confederacy
The Last Holdout
Little Song for Kimberly
Where Y’at
Ode to Things
Dispatch to Runaway the Younger
Cumpleaños

The Family Jewels
Our Lady of Prompt Succor
Funky from Now on
Ode to Booze
The N-Word
Bestiary of the Bayou State
Foosball, Shania, and Thou
Blue Balls
Tubing on the Bogue Chitto
Pit Bull Pastoral
Hangman
Blessings for a Nemesis
Ode to the Pelican
Raw Oysters with My Rock Star Husband

Hurricane Party
Praying with Strangers
The Day the Music Stopped
50-cent Words
Something in the Water
Shadow Ode
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Louisiana Crude
Love Poem with Schooner and Ruins
Helicopter Hands
Katrina Scribendi
Stupid Praise
Invitation to the Gretna Royals
Tabasco in Space
Notes

River of Voices
I have this inarticulate theory of being wronged.
I can’t shut up about it. I’m hooked on Katrina,
my worst luck (and I was lucky!) doling out
sucker punches, ulcers, and suspect fruit,
and who can make peace with bloody kisses?
There should be a twelve-step group, a safe house
FEMA trailer reachable by sea legs up the porch.
Once inside you’d gather around the card table,
light hurricane candles, and mumble the Serenity Prayer.
Starting over should be so easy. One day
at a time you wake and reenter a world
where everybody has flood stories and a Sheetrock cough.
The stories hum in my mind like bees in the wall—
river of voices rising to the watermark of what I choose
to remember, to breathe away from myself in one
long anonymous ode to mercy and decay.
Oh happy day, when it became okay to laugh!
Twinkle lights on the trash heap of soured clothes.
Our first practical joke, our first faux pas in months,
involving citrus from a neighbor’s tree that stood weeks
in flood waters, feigned death, but come spring
flourished with fruit. Post-Katrina etiquette
is so confusing! Is it okay to take the oranges that fall,
and if it is okay to take, is it okay to eat the floodnourished
fruit, and if one is unsure, is it okay
to pass the first taste off to an unsuspecting relative,
and once we see no harm is done, how long
are we allowed to laugh? A bystander would think
we took this on for fun, this reunion
of family at the table long after the meal
is cleared, telling our stories, which are one
story, the same story over and again,
only sometimes a few words added or missing,
story which, despite its heartbreak and body count
has always been about rebirth.
Louisiana
“The state with the prettiest name,”
and with parishes: Evangeline, Rapides, Avoyelles,
Tangipahoa, which in Choctaw means “corncob people.”
Fantastical sinking state, of a boot the heel-toe-heel

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