The Shared World
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4519-1 (ISBN)
The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions between families, lovers, and strangers and the perception and inconvenient truth of Black woman as mother—with or without child. Francis challenges the ways in which Black women are often dismissed while expected to be nurturing. This raw assemblage of poetic narratives stares down the oppressors from within and writes a new language in the art of taking back the body and the memory. These poetic narratives are brutal in their lyrical blows, but tender with the bruised history left behind. “You can’t stop this / song,” she writes. “More hands than yours have closed / around my throat.”Francis’s lyric gifts are on full display as she probes self-discovery, history, intimacy, and violence. Her voice encompasses humor and gravity, enigma and revelation. What emerges is a realm of intertwined experiences. “The secret to knowing the secret is to speak,” she concludes, “but we too often tell / the stories of no matter and avoid the one story that does, matter. / In truth, we are bound by one story, so you’d think by now / we’d tell it, at least to each other.”
VIEVEE FRANCIS is the author of three books of poetry: Blue‑Tail Fly; Horse in the Dark: Poems (Northwestern University Press), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection; and Forest Primeval: Poems (TriQuarterly Books), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and in 2010 a Kresge Fellowship. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College and serves as an associate editor of Callaloo.
To Forget
A Call to Arms
Break Me and I’ll Sing
Finding Myself in the Market of Accra
Another Attempt at the Telling
1965
The Shared World
Honey
Given to Rust
On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry and Me
The Keening
The Poets Who Are Our Enemies
When Your Brother Dies You Want
I’ve Worn It Three Days in a Row
Ugly Fruit
Everything is Berlin
Dead or Alive, The Rats Ignore Us
Juneteenth(#3)
The Smell
Accidental City
Provincetown, MA
You Prefer Us Dead
Alright, I Am the One You Prefer Dead
The Quiver Tree
Marvin Gaye: Mercy
I Have Been Witness and Victim
Yes, Among Them
I’ve Been Thinking About Love Again
I Know That Music
Birdsong Like a Child’s
Marvin Gaye: Sugar
Uncle Sonny
Bless the Kindling World
Brother of Skulls
Room for One
Omnivore
The Fisherman Speaks Again of his Days
The Lie
And Upon That Pale Horse a Paler Woman
Emmett, I said Wait
The Marsh King
Without End
Reading Neruda at 2:00 AM
The River Shivers as Much as I
The Winter Kingdom
Small Reprieve
To Be Touched as Sophia
The Sound
Epiphany: Parable of the Tongue Cut by Strings
That Cat
Returns
The Wheel of the Bus: A Fiction
Relevance
An Unkindness Of
Landscape
My Dolls Were Just That
Meat Eater
Goat Heart
I Am the Only One I Know Who Can Cook Them
Br’er Rabbit’s Hole
What The Fat Man Taught
Mother Tongue
Why I Don’t Wait
The Company of Wolves
The Shore
Nouvea Slim
The Morning I Miss Such Devotion
Everywhere and Here Too
Canzone in Blue, Then Bluer
Muleskinners
The World Contracts
Moan Soft Like You Wanted Somebody Terrible
Cannibal
In A Lesser Paradise
Goat
Fantastica Melancholia
The Dead Horse
The Cannibal Myth
Ota Benga’s Case
Dark Horse
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 368 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4519-7 / 0810145197 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4519-1 / 9780810145191 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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