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The Country I Come from: Poems

The Country I Come from: Poems

Norbert Krapf
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In this collection, which includes "Fire and Ice, " winner of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Norbert Krapf returns to the settings and themes of his highly regarded Somewhere in Southern Indiana. A writer for whom place has been a major inspiration, Krapf continues his exploration of family history, relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds, nature, and the passage of time. He extends his meditations on the Holocaust that conclude Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany to the treatment of the Miami Indians of his native region and a racial incident from his college years. The title echoes a line from his college years. The title echoes a line from Midwestern songwriter Bob Dylan, the subject of a tribute; refers to the poet's native Indiana, the American Heartland, the United States as a whole; and evokes a mythic homeland.
Pages
142
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Archer Books
Release
July 28, 2002
ISBN
1931122059
ISBN 13
9781931122054

The Country I Come from: Poems

Norbert Krapf
0/5 ( ratings)
In this collection, which includes "Fire and Ice, " winner of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Norbert Krapf returns to the settings and themes of his highly regarded Somewhere in Southern Indiana. A writer for whom place has been a major inspiration, Krapf continues his exploration of family history, relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds, nature, and the passage of time. He extends his meditations on the Holocaust that conclude Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany to the treatment of the Miami Indians of his native region and a racial incident from his college years. The title echoes a line from his college years. The title echoes a line from Midwestern songwriter Bob Dylan, the subject of a tribute; refers to the poet's native Indiana, the American Heartland, the United States as a whole; and evokes a mythic homeland.
Pages
142
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Archer Books
Release
July 28, 2002
ISBN
1931122059
ISBN 13
9781931122054

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