LEADER 04450nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910953845103321 005 20240417232113.0 010 $a9780814335215 010 $a0814335217 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048101 035 $a(OCoLC)755621241 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10499853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565565 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380508 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565565 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533157 035 $a(PQKB)10558733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416348 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416348 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10499853 035 $a(OCoLC)923509843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31349202 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31349202 035 $a(Perlego)4160423 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048101 100 $a20051208d2006 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlue-tail fly /$fVievee Francis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit, Mich. $cWayne State University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (89 p.) 225 1 $aMade in Michigan writers series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780814333235 311 08$a0814333230 327 $aCover -- Contents -- The Scale of Empire -- AFTERMATH -- 1880, The Binding Tie -- The Finishing Thoughts of Festus Spencer as He Looks into the Camera -- I -- 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 -- II -- 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 -- III -- 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. 330 8 $aA poetic treatment of the period of American history between the beginning of the Mexican War and the end of the Civil War, by Michigan poet Vievee Francis. The title of Blue-Tail Fly comes from an antebellum song commonly known as "Jimmy Crack Corn." The blue-tail fly is a supposedly insignificant creature that bites the horse that bucks and kills the master. In this collection, poet Vievee Francis gives voice to "outsiders"-from soldiers and common folk to leading political figures-who play the role of the blue-tail fly in the period of American history between the Mexican American War and the Civil War. Through a diverse range of styles, characters, and emotions, Francis's poems consider the demands of war, protest and resistance to it, and the cross-cultural exchanges of wartime. More than a narrowly themed text, Blue-Tail Fly is a book of balances, weighing the give-and-take of people and cultures in the arena of war. For lovers of poetry and those interested in American history, Blue-Tail Fly will illustrate the complexities of the American past and future. 410 0$aMade in Michigan writers series. 606 $aAfrican American soldiers$vPoetry 606 $aMexican War, 1846-1848$vPoetry 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPoetry 615 0$aAfrican American soldiers 615 0$aMexican War, 1846-1848 676 $a811/.6 700 $aFrancis$b Vievee$01811884 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953845103321 996 $aBlue-tail fly$94364040 997 $aUNINA