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Book SynopsisBold 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.
Table of ContentsSmoke Under the Bale Transfiguration 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
