Storm

Katie Ford's "Storm" is part of a contemporary plague journal, an epistle for the ruin of New Orleans that resounds with destructions both ancient and contemporary. Ford takes us through the carnage with brutal reportage and a disconsolate conversation with the divine. This is a poetry whose ultimate caritas is its resolute openness and its ability -- in the face of human folly -- to redeem us, terrible creatures that we are. --D.A. Powell.