Brooke Bergan's first work takes as...

Brooke Bergan's first work takes as its starting point the Storyville portraits of Ernest J Bellocq (1873-1949) The red-light district created in 1899 and clos down after the first World War, of the present day Orleans' Storyville serves as the site of Bergan's poetic archaeology. This is an intensely researched volume as the nine pages of bibliographic notes glance at More importantly, it is a deeply-felt and crafted book: Bergan's Creole family history provides individual strain of reminiscence and remembrance, while the prostitutes, jazzmen, opera stars, Ursuline nun plantation builders, and