{"product_id":"source-6","title":"Source","description":"In a noteworthy career Fred Chappell has created a body of verse that will likely endure as long as the North Carolina mountains that are the setting of so many of his poems. In such works as the tetralogy \u003ci\u003eMidquest\u003c\/i\u003e and the long poem \u003ci\u003eCastle Tzingal, \u003c\/i\u003eChappell has shown himself to be a master of his craft, acutely inquisitive and keenly observant, adept at a variety of forms and styles. Earlier this year Chappell's poetic achievement was honored when he received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. With \u003ci\u003eSource,\u003c\/i\u003e his newest collection, Chappell again reveals himself as a mature and gifted poet writing at the peak of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSource \u003c\/i\u003eshow the breadth and diversity of Chappell's range. They are by turn soft and lyrical, elegiac and formal, speculative and experimental. They draw on mythic images of the past and horrific visions of the future, but most important, they reflect Chappell's southern roots and his knowledge of a simple people and a simple way of life, as seen in these lines from \"\"Humility\"\":\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the necessary field among the round\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Warm stones we bend to our gleaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The brown earth gives in to our hands, and straw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By straw burns red aslant the vesper light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The village behind the graveyard tolls softly,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e begins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To glow with new-laid fires. . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is the country we return to when\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For a moment we forget ourselves,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When we watch the sleeping kitten quiver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After long play, or rain comes down warm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here we might choose to live always, here where\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ugly rumors of ourselves do not reach,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where in the whisper-light of the kerosene lamp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The deep Bible lies open like a turned-down bed.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807326585176,"sku":"9780807112779","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807112779_dd93421e-dc65-44a8-a493-d6b140baad57.jpg?v=1779516070","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/source-6","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}