Blue-Tail Fly

Vievee Francis

Made in Michigan Writers Series
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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