Horse in the dark : poems / Vievee Francis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Francis, Vievee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas--Poetry.

Texas.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Smoke under the bale

Transfiguration

Amarillo

Still life in yellow with browns and blacks

The plain of sudden circumstance

Devotion like this

How easily memory is colored

Field of lettuce

The heart will scale the dew

Gun of wishes

Bull snake

Loblolly pine in a field of hollyhocks

The cowboy's son

The hiding place

The conjunctions

Horse in the dark

I will be there forever and was never there at all

In praise of Solomon, who preferred the night

De rerum natura

Marred

Peaches

Fishing hole

Poulter's measure

The rule of the forest

Still life with another grandfather, Masons, and a pie tin under the bed

Eulogy with feast and a tall black man on bass

Still life in Amarillo #2

Pig head in a plastic sack

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

Anti-pastoral

You can pretend it doesn't exist if you want to but

Tug

Anteater at the Dallas Zoo

Sugar and brine: Ella's understanding

Cane, sweet and dusty as a teat

Of centauromachy

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 sea horse's lament

On the way to round rock

Firmament of glass

Pity the swine its succulence

Still life with summer sausage, a blade, and no blood

Old farmer

A is for

Ars poetica

Still life in white with free men and dust

Delivering the beast

Creation myth

To be pegasus.

ISBN:

9780810128408

0810128403

OCLC:

759910044