Beautiful Remains: Words and Pictures Rescued from Hurricane Katrina

Beautiful Remains: Words and Pictures Rescued from Hurricane Katrina recaptures poetry and images nearly drowned, but not forgotten. These poems and photographs, many previously unpublished, pay homage to the human spirit and the power of memory. With this collection, author Lisa Pertillar Brevard and photographer Frank Brevard illustrate the importance of reaching back, in order to move forward. The photographs are not about New Orleans; instead, they constitute a gallery, of sorts, of over twenty years of Frank's life as a photographer; they chronicle aspects of various peoples and locales, and formed the nexus of Frank's solo exhibit at Dillard University, the very first exhibit of its kind at the university (Excerpt from Foreword.) ---- The song lyrics, or poems, are also not about New Orleans. They concern the human spirit, with topics ranging from forgiveness, to social activism, to love (perhaps the most forgiving of all acts). Some were written in New Orleans; others were written during the days before we lived in New Orleans. All were recorded as songs, at Cocoon, Lisa's New Orleans digital recording studio, which was drowned by the waters of Hurricane Katrina. As this book attests, recordings may be drowned; but songs do not die, however, as long as the songwriter and singer (re)collects them. (Excerpt from Foreword.) ---- INDEX ---- After the Storm (poem/lyrics), p. 35 --- America the Beautiful (photo), p. 24 --- [Bedford-Stuyvesant] (photo), p. 7 --- Brooklyn Bridge (photo), p. 5 --- [Derelict ship] (photo), p. 4 --- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (photo), p. 31 --- Dreamstreet (photo), p. 9 --- Frank Brevard (Artist s Resume), pp. 39-41 --- Give Me (poem/lyrics), p. 15 --- God Is (poem/lyrics), p. 19 --- God Loves Us All (photo), p. 18 --- Hurt Who You Gonna Hurt, p. 8 --- I See You (photo), p. 27 --- I Want to Thank You (poem/lyrics), p. 30 --- Keystone Church of God in Christ (photo), p. 16 --- Lisa Pertillar Brevard (Selected Works), p. 37-38 --- Looking Through the Window (poem/lyrics), p. 12 --- Mackinac Bridge (photo), p. 1 --- [New York City skyline] (photo), p. 25 --- People Be (poem/lyrics), p. 21 --- Portrait of a Sister (photo), p. 28 --- Praise the Lord (A New Day Is Come) (poem/lyrics), p. 17 --- Save Our Black Colleges (photo), p. 20 --- Shadow Ascent (photo), p. 36 --- Sistahs (photo), p. 33 --- So Long Ago (And So Far) (poem/lyrics), p. 10 --- Soul Clap Hands and Sing (poem/lyrics), p. 23 --- Squeeze Play (photo), p. 26 --- Treat Her Right (poem/lyrics), p. 29 --- Tree in Contrast (photo), p. 13 --- Tumblin Faster (poem/lyrics), p. 6 --- United We Stand (photo), p. 22 --- Water Under the Bridge (poem/lyrics), p. 2 --- Winter Trail (photo), p. 14 --- Workin On Movin On (poem/lyrics), p. 32 --- Young German Girl (photo), 11