The Blood Dazzler, a book of poems either by Patricia Smith or put together by Patricia Smith. I have to say that the poems I have read in this book, I do not enjoy. This is a bit odd for me because I always seem to find one way or another to enjoy reading or analyzing poetry. This book, however, has found a way to break my pattern. The wording is beautiful, the subjects are pretty ordinary, and for some reason I just cannot get through to them. It is possible that I am distracted from these works, but I do not know for sure.
For instance: the poem looking for bodies (even with me being distracted) stands out to me the most. The poem is about finding a body in a household (or that is what I think it is about, but I could be wrong). There are so many details about how to properly enter the room, look at the scene to see if some sort of theory can be made, and then catching the scent of death and finding what use to be a human being. The last stanza especially "guide the gold of her into your arms blessing the droop and blown skin marveling at the way her soul rides slickly on the outside of everything how it ripples the water how it so deftly damns your hands"..it is so poetic and disturbing, but I am just not into it.
Overall the book was okay. Maybe I would personally have better luck with other poems in trying to decipher them and share with the class. I will admit, though, Patricia Smith did know what she was doing in putting all of the poems together (whether she had written them all or not). The all flow in some sort of order as if telling a story in separate chapters. I did enjoy that.
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