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Books by Vievee Francis
  | | Forest Primeval Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Vievee Francis Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2015 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3243-6, ISBN: 0-8101-3243-5 "Winner, 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the Poetry category Finalist, 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize Shortlist finalist, 2015 PEN Open Book Award for an exceptional book by an author of color"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat," the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imp ..." |
 | | Horse in the Dark Poems by Vievee Francis Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2840-8, ISBN: 0-8101-2840-3 "We played during gym. Ball in orbit. Kick her. She's it. Teacher played. The bus stood tilted. Teacher omnipresent as the sun. But I got all the attention. Split back to middle. Not praise. But attention is almost the same. It puts you in the center. A sun of my own. Dark center ofa bright universe. Inverse. I stood outside watching. Lopsided front to middle. They marched us by the wreck before snack. Before we had to mount our own ..." |
 | | Blue-Tail Fly (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by Vievee Francis Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2006 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3323-5, ISBN: 0-8143-3323-0 "The title of Blue-Tail Fly comes from an antebellum song commonly known as "Jimmy Crack Corn." The blue-tail fly is a supposedly insignificant creature that bites the horse that bucks and kills the master. In this collection, poet Vievee Francis gives voice to "outsiders"-from soldiers and common folk to leading political figures-who play the role of the blue-tail fly in the period of American history between the Mexican American War an ..." |
 | | Made In Michigan Writers Blue-Tail Fly by Vievee Francis 88 Pages, Published 2006 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3521-5, ISBN: 0-8143-3521-7 "Made in Michigan Writers Series general editors Michael Delp, Interlochen Centerfor the Arts M. L. Liebler, Wayne State University advisory editors Melba Joyce Boyd Wayne State University Stuart Dybek Western Michigan University Kathleen ..." |
 | | Dispatch Detroit by Christine Monhollen, Jessica Bomarito, Clark Coolidge, Vievee Francis, Alan Franklin, James Hart, Stephen Lucas, Falling James, Gregory Kiewiet 152 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-884118-11-1, ISBN: 1-884118-11-9 |
 | | The Shared World Poems by Francis, Vievee Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2023 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4519-1, ISBN: 0-8101-4519-7 |
 | | The Shared World Poems by Vievee Francis 161 Pages, Published 2023 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4521-4, ISBN: 0-8101-4521-9 "The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman." |
 | | Bearden's Odyssey Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden by Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda, Derek Walcott, Chris Abani, Rita Dove, Toi Derricotte, Vievee Francis, Nikki Giovanni, Ed Roberson Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3489-8, ISBN: 0-8101-3489-6 "Borrowing from Romare Bearden’s aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden’s Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections of one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth century. The award-winning editors, Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda, assemble an ..." |