Blue-Tail Fly

Name: Blue-Tail Fly
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ISBN: 9780814333235

ISBN-10: 0814333230

ISBN-13: 9780814333235

Edition: 2006

Authors: Vievee Francis

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A poetic treatment of the period of American history between the beginning of the Mexican War and the end of the Civil War, by Michigan poet Vievee Francis.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



The Scale of Empire


Aftermath


1880, The Binding Tie


The Finishing Thoughts of Festus Spencer as He Looks into the Camera





Frederick Douglass Speaks before the Anti-Mexican War Abolitionists


Ample Cause of War


General Taylor Convinces Himself That He Is for War


Doubt


Letter to the Governor of Texas


Notes from Officer Hitchcock's Lost Leather Journal


Liberation


By the end


Three Hundred and Seventy-Two Miles from Home


Pokagon Accepts Colonel Taylor's Invitation


Colonel Zachary Taylor Has Pokagon for Tea


The Escarpment


In Private Conversation: Buchanan to Like Minds


The Book Speaks of Pretenders


South of Houston





Civil Beginnings


Darling Wife


Grey Jebediah


The Bone Boiler


Shadows


1864, Fragments of a Camp near Yorktown


1864, A Pocket Full of Rye


Snake Swamp


1863, Walt Whitman Reads to the Limbless, Dying


Linsey-Woolsey


1864, Dear Mother


Gettysburg: Blue and Grey


A Singular Dispersion over Franklin, Tennessee


Lincoln Dreams of Sarah, the Servant


"If Not for You"


1863, Detroit Riots, Again


1864, Dear Son





Private Athens Descries


Hannibal of Athens, Georgia


White Glove Test


Private Smith's Primer


Br'er Rabbit in Chickamauga


Drummer Boy


Interview: Survivor, Fort Pillow


A Second Dream of Sarah


Nigger Pine


Lincoln Speaks after the Bones Are Thrown


The White Immensities


Notes on the Poems


Credits and Acknowledgments