Shrinking the Monster
Healing the Wounds of Our Abuse
Published on 15. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-87946-984-9 (ISBN)
Description
The author documents in great detail why and how he finally (after fifty years of refusing to do so), went public with what had been done to him as a young boy in the 1950s by the pastor of his family's Catholic parish in Jasper, Indiana, a man who was a supposed friend of his parents. Each step in Krapf's ongoing recovery is documented in careful prose, with frequent references to his book of poetry on the abuse, Catholic Boy Blues, which he published in 2014 at age 70.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87946-984-9 (9780879469849)
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Norbert Krapf, former Indiana Poet Laureate, was born and grew up in a small German-American town in southern Indiana. He is the author of twenty-six books, including Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet's Journal of Healing, his eleventh full-length poetry collection. Krapf has received the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Glick Indiana Author Award for the body of his work, including Catholic Boy Blues, and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.