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The two-for-the-price-of-one poems in Shadow Box -- poems enclosed, or embedded, or inlaid within poems--comprise a new and dramatic verse form by one of America's most respected poets. While playful in their construction, they present heartfelt examinations of human feelings, respond somberly to the news of the world, and rejoice in humankind's plentiful variety of attitudes and beliefs. In the end, these poems broaden the expressive possibilities of formal poetry by engaging the imagination in fresh and out-of-the-blue ways. At once revolutionary and traditional, Shadow Box is deep and full of surprises.…mehr

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The two-for-the-price-of-one poems in Shadow Box -- poems enclosed, or embedded, or inlaid within poems--comprise a new and dramatic verse form by one of America's most respected poets. While playful in their construction, they present heartfelt examinations of human feelings, respond somberly to the news of the world, and rejoice in humankind's plentiful variety of attitudes and beliefs. In the end, these poems broaden the expressive possibilities of formal poetry by engaging the imagination in fresh and out-of-the-blue ways. At once revolutionary and traditional, Shadow Box is deep and full of surprises.
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Autorenporträt
Before his death in 2024, Fred Chappell published more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose. Honors bestowed on his work include the Bollingen Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. His fiction was translated into more than a dozen languages and received the Best Foreign Book Award from the Académie Française. A native of Canton in the mountains of western North Carolina, Chappell was the state's poet laureate from 1997 to 2002 and an English professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro for forty years.