I hope you find the same adventure and fantasy in this book as a reader as I found the adventure in writing it.

A sequel to this book The Queen’s Return Also by author The Curse Broken Warrior I hope you find the same adventure and fantasy in this book as a reader as I found the adventure in writing it. ~ Kevin Moore

A sequel to this book The Queen’s Return Also by author The Curse Broken Warrior I hope you find the same adventure and fantasy in this book as a reader as I found the adventure in writing it. ~ Kevin Moore

Also by Author The Dimensional Breach And a sequel to The Dimensional Breach The Queen’s Return I hope you find the same adventure and fantasy in this book as a reader as I found the adventure in writing it. ~ Kevin Moore

Also by Author The Dimensional Breach And a sequel to The Dimensional Breach The Queen's Return I hope you find the same adventure and fantasy in this book as a reader as I found the adventure in writing it. ~ Kevin Moore

In Breach, New Orleans native Nicole Cooley recalls Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in gritty, poignant detail, bearing witness to the destruction of a region and to its recovery. Ranging from the urgent to the reflective, these poems speak not only to the horrors of the immediate disaster, but also to family dynamics in a time of crisis and to the social, political, and cultural realities that contextualized the storm and its wake. In the title poem, Cooley invokes the multiple meanings of the word "breach" -- breach of the levees, breach of trust -- which resonate with survivors in the Crescent City, and in "Evacuation," she recounts her efforts to encourage her parents to leave the city and her harrowing three-day wait to hear from them after they refused. A number of poems, including "Write a Love Letter to Camellia Grill," "The Superdome: A Suite," and "Biloxi Bay Bridge Still Out," offer a broad range of voices and experiences to expand the perspective beyond Cooley's own family. With language and images both powerful and precise, this compelling collection dares us to "watch the surface of the city tear like loose skin."