From snowflakes to icicles to glaciers and through the streams, rivulets till the delta and beyond it is a continuous saga of transformation and evolution. River is the process of metamorphosis of life. The moment of river’s tremulousness to which he ascribes fear as the cause is actually the status of ecstasy just before the merger with the lotus of thousand petals. Obviously he doesn’t subscribe to its rising through the various barriers, knots and the chakras. Probably Gibran didn’t have an exposure to the concept of individual consciousness piercing the envelopment which seemingly separated it from the universal consciousness. River doesn’t tremble with fear, it is ecstatic, it is excited. Probably Gibran didn’t have an exposure to the concept of individual consciousness piercing the envelopment which seemin. Slowly and slowly it discards its banks, sands become one with sand and water with water. It doesn’t experience fear, it is just thrilled, just awakened It is about to achieve what it had been seeking through the forests the gorges the plains and the mountains It is aroused, it is awakened, it is rapturous, it is joyous, it is fervent but it is not afraid It is about to surrender the identity bestowed upon it by the ocean and the sky, it is about to experience the eventual dissolution,
Or a daughter returning to her parental home Whether she is a bride going to be one with the beloved It sees the ocean with wide spread arms, waiting, inviting, raging Few poets can write with her earned grace.River doesn’t tremble with fear, it is ecstatic, it is excited. They embody Lorca’s idea that duende is about self-discovery, of excavation through image and the imaginary. “When I say Vievee Francis is one of the finest living American writers, I say it without hyperbole. Who do we share the world with? Who do we ignore? What does it mean to live so closely in proximity to each other and to have such deeply complicated histories? At the heart of this book is this truth: what is the telling, and how do we go about the ways of doing so? With bravery, Francis peels back the layers, not leaving a simple understanding but instead, by the telling, examining the complications of what it means to tell.” -Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us: Poems In her fourth book, The Shared World, she charts a course of how entangled all of our lives are in today’s world. “Vievee Francis is, undoubtedly, one of the most compelling poets alive and writing today. Moan Soft Like You Wanted Somebody Terrible I Am the Only One I Know Who Can Cook Them On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry and MeĮpiphany: Parable of the Tongue Cut by Strings In truth, we are bound by one story, so you'd think by now / we'd tell it, at least to each other." “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. What emerges is a realm of intertwined experiences.
Her voice encompasses humor and gravity, enigma and revelation.
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“More hands than yours have closed / around my throat."įrancis's lyric gifts are on full display as she probes self-discovery, history, intimacy, and violence.
“You can't stop this / song," she writes. These poetic narratives are brutal in their lyrical blows but tender with the bruised history left behind. 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. Francis challenges the ways in which Black women are often dismissed while expected to be nurturing. 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. The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman.
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