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Informationen zum Autor Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf was Professor of English at Long Island University from 1970 47to 2004. His books include The Country I Come From: Poems and Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems, a collaboration with photographer Darryl Jones (IUP 2006). He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. David Pierini is a staff photographer for The Herald newspaper in Jasper, Indiana. He was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2003 and 2006 by the Indiana News Photographers Association. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Klappentext Photographs by David Pierini, inspired by Krapf's work with many taken in and around Dubois County, grace this evocative portrait of a poet and place. Zusammenfassung Features poems and photographs that capture the southern Indiana hill country. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS: Poems List I. Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993) The Forefather Arrives Entering the Southern Indiana Wilderness Butchering Cutting Wood The Woods of Southern Indiana Indigo Bunting Chamomile Purple Trillium Tulip Poplar Walnut Skinning a Rabbit Darkness Comes to the Woods Southern Indiana St. Meinrad Archabbey To Obscure men Two Bricks and a Board My Father Young Again A Terre Haute Story Hoosier Songs Sisters A Civil War Veteran from Indiana Flight For an Old Friend Basketball Season Begins Somewhere in Southern Indiana II. Bittersweet Along the Expressway (2000) Arriving on Paumanok Sycamore on Main Street Ancestral Voices Weeping Willow Dogwood Gatsby Country The Roslyn Forge Song of the Music Stand A Midwestern Story A Dream of Plum Blossoms III. The Country I Come From (2002) A Whiff of Fresh Sheets Full Circle The Language of Place The Language of Species What We Lost in Southern Indiana The Buffalo Trace What the Miami Call Themselves Song of the Mississinewa Mississinewa River Lament Mississinewa Cottonwood Leaf Lines Heard in Northern Indiana Cornfields Mayapple Fire and Ice One Voice from Many Pastoral Poetics The Corn Cave Hauling Hay Hayloft Milk Music The Labor Day Boxes The Horseradish Man When the House Was New Woods Hymn Bloodroot His Only Hickory Sapling The Martin Box The Potato Barrows Gathering Hickory Nuts The Quilters Saturday Night at the Calumet Because I Could Not Stop Song for Bob Dylan Odysseus in Indiana Return to a Mighty Fortress Song for a Sister The Dropped Pigskin Dream of a Hanging Curve Dorothy and the Jewish Coat The Mandolin and the Tenor Let Morning Light Hugging the Spirit Farewell Lullaby At Least Now The Reunion Places IV. Looking for God's Country (2005) Letter from a Star Above Southern Indiana The Nest Strawberry-Patch Song The Gardener Chicken in the Woods Godfather's Fishing Knife Patoka River Canoe Trip Barnyard Hoops The Schneebrunzer What the Map Says God's Country The Storyteller Where Trees Are Tall The Piankashaw in the Sycamore Coming into the Valley Dark and Deep Moon Shadow The Time Has Come V. Invisible Presence (2006) Gate The Language of Red Corn Blowing in the Wind The Blue Road The Space Between Bovine Beauty Corn Syllables Cut Earth Morel Cabin Whitman's Web Deaton's Woods Woods Meditation David Ignatow's Trees Bare Tree Song Tale of the Red Barn Two Kittens Midwestern Scene A Red Barn for the Joads What's in Wood? I Remember...
