Works by Bianca Lynne Spriggs
How Swallowtails Become Dragons by Call Number: 821.914 S769h 2011 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2011
Black Bone by Call Number: 821.914 B624 2017 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2018Introduction
"Praisesong for a Mountain" by Bianca Lynne Spriggs
"Black Bone" by Bianca Lynne Spriggs
Circe's Lament by Call Number: 821.914 C578 2016 - Circulating (3rd Floor)Publication Date: 2016"Circe's Lament is a collection of powerhouse poems by women that make you want to get down and growl. These aren't poems for the faint of heart or the bashful. These are poems for the she-wolves. These are poems for the brazen hussies. These are poems for the wicked, the loud-mouthed, the ballsy, and the big-hearted. Lean in and listen closely. They'll teach you how to bite." --Ada LimOn
Call Her by Her Name by Call Number: 821.92 S769c 2016ISBN: 0810132761Publication Date: 2016-04-15In Call Her by Her Name, the poet and performance artist Bianca Lynne Spriggs creates a twenty-first-century feminist manifesto suffused with metaphoric depth. This collection is a call-and-response of women—divine and domestic, legend and literal—who shape-shift and traverse generations. Through these narratives and cinematic poems, a chorus emerges of stories and lives rarely told. Call Her by Her Name seeks to give voice to the voiceless, including lynched black women, the biblical "Potiphar’s wife," and women who tread the rims of phenomenal worlds—the goddess, the bird-woman, the oracle. While these poems reflect an array of women and women’s experiences, each piece could be considered a hue of the same woman, whether home-wrecker, Madonna, or midwife. The woman who sees dragons was perhaps once the roller-skating girl-child. The aging geisha may also be the roots woman next door. The woman who did not speak for ten years could have ended up sinking to the ocean floor. Spriggs gives each one life and limb, breath and voice, in a collection that adds up unequivocally to a poetic celebration of women.
The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor by Call Number: 821.92 S769g 2016ISBN: 9781938247262Publication Date: 2016-11-01Poetry. Art. Bianca Lynne Spriggs, a poet and visual artist (among other things), records, catalogs, and mythologizes our all-at-once grotesque and heart-wrenching present. Her irresistible voice imparts upon her readers the natural world, the cosmos, our hearts, all retransmitted through a prism of sensuous and enchanted language. In THE GALAXY IS A DANCE FLOOR, we encounter "a nursery for unborn stars." We are asked to consider: "You think the cosmos was engineered / by elements that always perform / like the rest?" Before you realize it, Spriggs will be "feasting on the savory red sugar of you."
Biography
BIANCA LYNNE SPRIGGS is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Lexington, Kentucky. The author of four collections of poetry, her most recent are Call Her By Her Name (Northwestern University Press, 2016) and The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor (Argos Books, 2016). She is the managing editor for pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture and the poetry editor for Apex Magazine. You can learn more about her work at: www.biancaspriggs.com
source:
Spriggs, Bianca Lynne, and Jeremy Paden, editors. “Biographies.” Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2017, pp. 151–156.
