Brighten Corner Where You Are: 2 (Kirkman Family Cycle) - Softcover

Chappell, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312050577 ISBN 13: 9780312050573

Publisher: SMP Paperback, 1990

Synopsis

Spring Garden selects poems from six of Fred Chappell's previous collections and adds to them some thirty new ones. Seven sections on different themes compose the main body of the book, and each section is provided a prologue. A General Prologue and an Epilogue are supplied too, and all these taken together make up a loose and gentle narrative, a story of the poet classifying and selecting among his work while his wife, Susan, botanizes in their private garden. Their parallel labors completed, they look toward the approaching long twilight. Chappell is known for designing his poetry books as wholes, and Spring Garden, though it represents the compositions of twenty-five years, is no exception. Its contents are varied but unified, its purposes serious but congenial. And though the volume is suffused with an elegiac tone, these pages contain surprises in plenty and friendly good humor.

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Title: Brighten the Corner Where You Are <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: FredChappell <>Publisher: St.Martin'sGriffin

Review:

"Deeply felt, warm, and funny . . . a wonderful tale, one full of wild humor and humanity." --The Los Angeles Times

"The resonantly lyrical novel enchants us . . . we are lifted to a height of exhilaration few current writers can take us to." --New York Newsday

"Brighten washes you with language. Reading it is like leaping into one of those streams in the middle of nowhere where everything is green and our childhoods wait to reclaim something lost, something astoundingly simple as joy." --Charlotte Observer

"A raconteur of extraordinary gifts, Chappell fluidly spins mountain yarns, weaning spellbinding myths, hypnotic dreams, hilarious dialogue and unforgettable characters into the warp and weft of a funny, poignant and very human story." --Orlando Sentinel

"At once lyrical and plainspoken, relentlessly funny and, at crucial moments, breathlessly sad . . . Brighten the Corner Were You Are is Fred Chappell's finest work so far and thus--I have been reading and writing and waiting forty years to say this--it's a blooming masterpiece." --George Garrett

About this edition

• Publisher: SMP Paperback
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0312050577
• ISBN 13: 9780312050573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222