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The Fred Chappell Reader
The Fred Chappell Reader | Fred Chappell
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Fred Chappell is one of our most brilliant and versatile authors, with many novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry to his credit. This anthology bears witness to the scope of his career: a rich body of narrative and lyrical fictions ranging over history, mythology, science, philosophy, and Chappell's own life. He has been recognized as a storyteller "to put on the shelf with Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty" (The Washington Post). The Fred Chappell Reader is full of stories, including a complete novel, Dagon; substantial portions of four other novels; several short stories (two of which are previously uncollected); and poems culled from his books, an achievement for which Chappell shared (with John Ashbery) the prestigious Bolligen Prize in 1985. Here is an important and thoroughly rewarding selection of work by a major American writer.
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plemmdog
The Fred Chappell Reader | Fred Chappell
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Fred Chappell died last week. I have a signed lithograph of this, one of my favorite poems. I hope he‘s resting in peace with the cool ground‘s mild children.

Anna40 May his memory be a blessing. Thank you for sharing this beautiful poem 4mo
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cathysaid
The Fred Chappell Reader | Fred Chappell
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Published in the Charlotte Observer shortly after September 11 was a poem by Fred Chappell, the NC Poet Laureate at the time of the tragedy. This poem affected me so profoundly, I cut it out and it has lived on my fridge ever since. Having moved many times in the last sixteen years, I'm never "home" until I've posted this poem and I can read it every day. #BookTalk #poetry

MrBook Wow!!! Beautiful!!! Thank you so much for sharing! ☺️ 7y
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