Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems

In this celebration of life in death Mona Lisa Saloy captures the solemn grief ongoing struggle and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. She knows the music of the neighborhood spoken and sung in affirmation of what is genuine and hopeful as well as the despair of destruction that nature and politics heaped upon The Crescent City. Saloys details of down-home activities and use of local expressions convey the many cultures and voices of this unique place. In this ode to New Orleans there is joy and hope and a passionate call to join the resilient Second Line.