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Author Francis, Vievee

Title Blue-tail fly / Vievee Francis
Published Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (77 pages)
Series Made in Michigan writers series
Made in Michigan writers series.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 75)
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Subject African American soldiers -- Poetry
Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Poetry
POETRY -- American -- General.
African American soldiers
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry
Subject United States
Genre/Form poetry.
History
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005035890
ISBN 9780814335215
0814335217