The Fred Chappell Reader
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An Anthology Showcasing the Brilliant Versatility of Acclaimed American Author Fred Chappell
The Fred Chappell Reader is an anthology that bears witness to the remarkable scope of Fred Chappell's career, featuring a rich body of narrative and lyrical fictions ranging over history, mythology, science, philosophy, and Chappell's own life. Recognized as a storyteller "to put on the shelf with Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty" by The Washington Post, Chappell is one of America's most brilliant and versatile authors, with many novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry to his credit.
This collection includes the complete novel Dagon, substantial portions of four other novels, several short stories (two of which are previously uncollected), and a selection of poems culled from his books. Chappell's poetic achievement earned him a share of the prestigious Bollingen Prize in 1985, alongside John Ashbery.
The Fred Chappell Reader offers an important and thoroughly rewarding selection of work by a major American writer, showcasing his mastery of diverse genres and cementing his place in the pantheon of great American literature.
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Person
Fred Chappell is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and fiction. His books include the novel Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave you (Picador USA) and Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press). He was a judge for the 1997 National Book Award for Poetry and his writing has received many major prizes, including the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale University (shared with John Ashbery), the Ingersoll Foundation's T.S. Eliot Award, the Aiken/Taylor Award from the University of the South, and the Award in Literature from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where he lives with his wife, Susan.
Content
"What's Artichokes?": An Introduction to the Work of Fred Chappell by Dabney Stuart
I. NOVELS
From It Is Time, Lord, Chapters 1-3
From The Inkling, Chapters 1-3
Dagon
From The Gaudy Place, Chapter 1: Arkie
From I Am One of You Forever
II. SHORT STORIES
From Moments of Light
"Mrs. Franklin Ascends"; "Thatch Retaliates"; "Moments of Light"; "The Thousand Ways"; "Children of Strikers"; "Blue Dive"
Uncollected Stories
"Linnaeus Forgets"; "Notes Toward a Theory of Flight"
III. POETRY
From The World Between the Eyes
"February"; "Tiros II"; "Death of W.H. Auden"; "Seated Figure"
From Midquest
"The River Awakening in the Sea"; "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet"; "Cleaning the Well"; "Dead Soldiers"; "Rimbaud Fire Letter to Jim Applewhite"; "My Grandfather's Church Goes Up"; "Burning the Frankenstein Monster: Elegiac Letter to Richard Dillard"; "Second Wind"; "My Father's Hurricane"; "Three Sheets in the Wind: Virgil Campbell Confesses"; "Remembering Wind Mountain at Sunset"; "My Mother's Hard Row to Hoe"; "My Father Washes His Hands"; "Susan's Morning Dream of Her Garden"; "My Grandmother's Dream of Plowing"; "Earthsleep"
From Castle Tzingal
"The Homunculus"; "The Admiral"; "Song for Disembodied Voice"; "The Queen"; "Epilogue: Song for Disembodied Voice"
From Source
"Child in the Fog"; "Humility"; "Awakening to Music"; "Narcissus and Echo"; "Recovery of Sexual Desire after a Bad Cold"; "Rib"; "The Virtues"; "Message"; "Forever Mountain"
Afterword: "A Pact with Faustus"
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