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Horse in the Dark: Poems de Vievee Francis

Horse in the Dark: Poems

Autor Vievee Francis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2012
In the next chapter of the Cave Canem/Northwestern University Poetry Prize, we enter the poetic world of Vievee Francis. Bold and skilled, Francis takes us into the still landscapes of Texas and the fluid details of the African American South. Her poems become panhandle folktales revealing the weight of memories so clear and on the cusp. Her creative tangle of metaphors, people and geography will keep the reader rooted in a good earth of extraordinary verse.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810128408
ISBN-10: 0810128403
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press

Notă biografică

VIEVEE FRANCIS is the author of Blue-Tail Fly: Poems (2006). Her work has appeared or is forth­coming in several periodicals and anthologies including Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Best Ameri­can Poetry 2010, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. She was the 2009–2010 Poet-in-Residence for the Alice Lloyd Hall Scholars Program and is the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Award, a 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowship, and Cave Canem fel­lowships. She is an associate editor for Callaloo.

Cuprins

Smoke Under the Bale
Transfiguration
<EPI>
I 4
Amarillo
Still Life in Yellow with Browns and Some Blacks
The Plain of Sudden Circumstance
How Easily Memory is Colored
Bull Snake
Gun of Wishes
The Cowboy’s Son
The Hiding Place
The Conjunctions
II
Horse in the Dark
I Will Be There Forever and Was Never There At All
De rerum natura
Marred
Peaches
Fishing Hole
Poulter’s Measure
The Rule of the Forest
Still Life with Another Grandfather, Masons, and a Pie Under the Bed
Eulogy With Feast and a Tall Black Man on Bass
Still Life in Amarillo #2
Pig Head in a Plastic Sack
III
Before Crushing the Heads of Her Sleeping Boys She Heard the Breeze A-Whispering
Killing Jim Mitchell
Say It, Say It Any Way You Can
Blue Haunt
Tug
Anteater
Sugar and Brine
Cane, Sweet and Dusty as a Teat
IV
The Beach Still Has its Dangers
Water, While Not Love is So Similar
At the Lethe I Met My Mother and She Did Not Know Me
The Seahorse’s Lament
On the Way to Round Rock
Firmament of Glass
Still Life with Summer Sausage, a Blade, and No Blood
Memory and Plow
A is for
Ars Poetica
Still Life in White with Free Men and Dust
To Be Pegasus

Recenzii

“The poems in Vievee Francis’s Horse in the Dark are revelations—of memory, of dust, of the cotton and marginalia strung together to make a history.” —Adrian Matejka, author of Mixology
"So many suitors.... Who can resist Vievee Francis? ‘Horse in the Dark,’ just like ‘Blue-Tail Fly’ before it, attests to Francis’s graceful state of dignified self-possession informed by sorrows, brutal violence, and hidden desires. Francis’s desire lines are complicated. Ever authentic and observant, she adjures us... to follow her... to put down our bow, take up our lyre, and sing. ‘Horse in the Dark’ is the long version of Philip Larkin’s line “What will survive of us is love.’" —Scott Hightower, author of Part of the Bargain and Self-evident
"...an electrifying portrait of danger and hardship in a mostly rural-landscape in West Texas." —National Book Critics Circle

Descriere

Bold and skilled, Francis takes us into the still landscapes of Texas, evoking the African American South in fluid detail. Her poems become panhandle folktales fraught with the weight of memories both individual and collective. Her creative tangle of metaphors, people, and geography will keep the reader rooted in the good earth of extraordinary verse.