Shadow box: poems
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Main Author: Chappell, Fred (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2009
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Item Description:Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Five; Afterword
In this sharply innovative collection, renowned poet Fred Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form--the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume's title, each piece consists of an inner world contained, framed, supported by an outer--the two interdependent, sometimes supplementary, often contrary. For example, the grim but gorgeous "The Caretakers" is a landscape that reveals another image inside it. Chappell also introduces sonnets in which the sestet nests within the octet. Play serves as an important component, but the poems do not depend upon gam
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 81 pages)
ISBN:0807136549
9780807136546

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