Storyville: A Hidden Mirror

By Brooke Bergan

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155921094X
• ISBN13: 9781559210942
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

subtle insights into the poetry of images

A subtle collection of poems exploring the photographs of E. J. Bellocq and the author's own creole family history. The poems about Bellocq were, for me, the best part of the book, wonderfully intelligent accounts of these mysterious and surreal portraits of 'Storyville' prostitutes. Bergen's insights are far more sophisticated than those of any other writer I've come across. The section on Creole identity I found less convincing, as it seemed, at times, arbitrary and rather academic. Often, though, the lyrics about the photographs, the imagined 'voices' of Storyville characters and the discursive explorations of the past all worked together to create a resonance worthy of Bellocq's originals.You will get the most from these poems with the photographs in front of you as you read.