Download or read book The Dirty Side of the Storm written by Martha Serpas and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water. Her verses grapple with grieving a lost home and advocating for change. Most of the book is set in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary (Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes), Louisiana. "Poem Found" was written in response to the levee breaches caused by Hurricane Katrina.