{"product_id":"bloodroot-indiana-poems-paperback-softback-9780253352248","title":"Bloodroot; Indiana Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253352248","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBloodroot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIndiana Poems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNorbert Krapf (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253352248\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 61 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anyone who doubts that poetry can reveal the history of a person or a place should read the collected poems of Indiana poet laureate Norbert Krapf. March 2009\"—\u003ci\u003eIndiana Magazine of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Krapf's poems are sensually rich and wildly accessible. . . . This is a collection to be savored.February 1, 2009\"—Michael Zimmerman, \u003ci\u003eIndianapolis Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A new poetic voice has risen out of the hills and woods of southern Indiana, Hoosier poet laureate Norbert Krapf. . . . What one has been endowed with is a major part of what one has to endow the future. Out of this endowment Krapf has given us a great legacy.\"—John D. Groppe, \u003ci\u003eValparaiso Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Krapf's poems are a conglomeration of wildlife, people, plants, nature, and land, with vivid imagery allowing the reader to practically smell the flowers, walk with bare feet through the grass, and feel the wind on their cheek.March\/April 2009\"—\u003ci\u003eNorthern Indiana Lakes Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Norbert Krapf is one of our distinguished and moving American poets. The new poems seem among his best.\"—\u003ci\u003eRobert Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The test of 'poetry of place' is whether it feels perfectly familiar to a reader who lives there. I'm a southern Indiana native who feels right at home in Norbert Krapf's poems.\"—\u003ci\u003eJames Alexander Thom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloodroot\u003c\/i\u003e showcases poetry from the collected works of Jasper, Indiana, native Norbert Krapf. Spanning 35 years, these poems focus on Krapf's experiences living in southern Indiana and the intersection of his life with his German ancestry. Forty of the poems are published here for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: Poems List \u003cbr\u003e I. Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993) \u003cbr\u003e The Forefather Arrives\u003cbr\u003e Entering the Southern Indiana Wilderness\u003cbr\u003e Butchering\u003cbr\u003e Cutting Wood\u003cbr\u003e The Woods of Southern Indiana\u003cbr\u003e Indigo Bunting\u003cbr\u003e Chamomile\u003cbr\u003e Purple Trillium\u003cbr\u003e Tulip Poplar\u003cbr\u003e Walnut\u003cbr\u003e Skinning a Rabbit\u003cbr\u003e Darkness Comes to the Woods\u003cbr\u003e Southern Indiana\u003cbr\u003e St. Meinrad Archabbey\u003cbr\u003e To Obscure men\u003cbr\u003e Two Bricks and a Board\u003cbr\u003e My Father Young Again\u003cbr\u003e A Terre Haute Story\u003cbr\u003e Hoosier Songs\u003cbr\u003e Sisters\u003cbr\u003e A Civil War Veteran from Indiana\u003cbr\u003e Flight\u003cbr\u003e For an Old Friend\u003cbr\u003e Basketball Season Begins\u003cbr\u003e Somewhere in Southern Indiana \u003cbr\u003e II. Bittersweet Along the Expressway (2000) \u003cbr\u003e Arriving on Paumanok\u003cbr\u003e Sycamore on Main Street\u003cbr\u003e Ancestral Voices\u003cbr\u003e Weeping Willow\u003cbr\u003e Dogwood\u003cbr\u003e Gatsby Country\u003cbr\u003e The Roslyn Forge\u003cbr\u003e Song of the Music Stand\u003cbr\u003e A Midwestern Story\u003cbr\u003e A Dream of Plum Blossoms \u003cbr\u003e III. The Country I Come From (2002) \u003cbr\u003e A Whiff of Fresh Sheets\u003cbr\u003e Full Circle\u003cbr\u003e The Language of Place\u003cbr\u003e The Language of Species\u003cbr\u003e What We Lost in Southern Indiana\u003cbr\u003e The Buffalo Trace\u003cbr\u003e What the Miami Call Themselves\u003cbr\u003e Song of the Mississinewa\u003cbr\u003e Mississinewa River Lament\u003cbr\u003e Mississinewa Cottonwood Leaf\u003cbr\u003e Lines Heard in Northern Indiana Cornfields\u003cbr\u003e Mayapple\u003cbr\u003e Fire and Ice\u003cbr\u003e One Voice from Many\u003cbr\u003e Pastoral Poetics\u003cbr\u003e The Corn Cave\u003cbr\u003e Hauling Hay\u003cbr\u003e Hayloft\u003cbr\u003e Milk Music\u003cbr\u003e The Labor Day Boxes\u003cbr\u003e The Horseradish Man\u003cbr\u003e When the House Was New\u003cbr\u003e Woods Hymn\u003cbr\u003e Bloodroot\u003cbr\u003e His Only Hickory Sapling\u003cbr\u003e The Martin Box\u003cbr\u003e The Potato Barrows\u003cbr\u003e Gathering Hickory Nuts\u003cbr\u003e The Quilters\u003cbr\u003e Saturday Night at the Calumet\u003cbr\u003e Because I Could Not Stop\u003cbr\u003e Song for Bob Dylan\u003cbr\u003e Odysseus in Indiana\u003cbr\u003e Return to a Mighty Fortress\u003cbr\u003e Song for a Sister\u003cbr\u003e The Dropped Pigskin\u003cbr\u003e Dream of a Hanging Curve\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy and the Jewish Coat\u003cbr\u003e The Mandolin and the Tenor\u003cbr\u003e Let Morning Light\u003cbr\u003e Hugging the Spirit\u003cbr\u003e Farewell Lullaby\u003cbr\u003e At Least Now \u003cbr\u003e The Reunion\u003cbr\u003e Places \u003cbr\u003e IV. Looking for God's Country (2005) \u003cbr\u003e Letter from a Star Above Southern Indiana\u003cbr\u003e The Nest\u003cbr\u003e Strawberry-Patch Song\u003cbr\u003e The Gardener\u003cbr\u003e Chicken in the Woods\u003cbr\u003e Godfather's Fishing Knife\u003cbr\u003e Patoka River Canoe Trip\u003cbr\u003e Barnyard Hoops\u003cbr\u003e The Schneebrunzer\u003cbr\u003e What the Map Says\u003cbr\u003e God's Country\u003cbr\u003e The Storyteller \u003cbr\u003e Where Trees Are Tall\u003cbr\u003e The Piankashaw in the Sycamore\u003cbr\u003e Coming into the Valley\u003cbr\u003e Dark and Deep\u003cbr\u003e Moon Shadow\u003cbr\u003e The Time Has Come \u003cbr\u003e V. Invisible Presence (2006) \u003cbr\u003e Gate\u003cbr\u003e The Language of Red\u003cbr\u003e Corn Blowing in the Wind\u003cbr\u003e The Blue Road\u003cbr\u003e The Space Between\u003cbr\u003e Bovine Beauty\u003cbr\u003e Corn Syllables\u003cbr\u003e Cut Earth\u003cbr\u003e Morel\u003cbr\u003e Cabin\u003cbr\u003e Whitman's Web\u003cbr\u003e Deaton's Woods\u003cbr\u003e Woods Meditation\u003cbr\u003e David Ignatow's Trees\u003cbr\u003e Bare Tree Song\u003cbr\u003e Tale of the Red Barn\u003cbr\u003e Two Kittens\u003cbr\u003e Midwestern Scene\u003cbr\u003e A Red Barn for the Joads\u003cbr\u003e What's in Wood?\u003cbr\u003e I Remember When\u003cbr\u003e Close Look\u003cbr\u003e Flower Interior\u003cbr\u003e Rilke's Shadow\u003cbr\u003e Army of Orange\u003cbr\u003e Left in a House\u003cbr\u003e What If Fish?\u003cbr\u003e For Whom the Bell?\u003cbr\u003e Picket Fence\u003cbr\u003e Rest\u003cbr\u003e Walking the Streets\u003cbr\u003e Windows\u003cbr\u003e The Court House Bench\u003cbr\u003e The Man in the Red Cap\u003cbr\u003e Neighborhood Muse\u003cbr\u003e Hoosier Poetry Reading\u003cbr\u003e Song of the Red Covered Bridge \u003cbr\u003e VI. Local News: Poems 2005-2007 \u003cbr\u003e Sister Soap\u003cbr\u003e Clothesline Saga\u003cbr\u003e Charlie\u003cbr\u003e Little Red Worms from Tennessee\u003cbr\u003e Dolls and Guns\u003cbr\u003e The Local News\u003cbr\u003e Two Bottles of Beer\u003cbr\u003e Cemetery Wind\u003cbr\u003e The Egg in My Hand\u003cbr\u003e Lindauer's Woods\u003cbr\u003e Father, Teach Me\u003cbr\u003e Old Henry\u003cbr\u003e Wilson's Drugstore\u003cbr\u003e Rockroading\u003cbr\u003e The Rustic Tavern\u003cbr\u003e Sister Query\u003cbr\u003e Fishing Again After Many Years\u003cbr\u003e Patoka River Carp\u003cbr\u003e The Blueberry Bush\u003cbr\u003e Call of the Quail\u003cbr\u003e The Rosary\u003cbr\u003e Silent Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Eighth Anniversary\u003cbr\u003e Brother, Brother\u003cbr\u003e Indiana Sycamore\u003cbr\u003e Patoka Lake Morning\u003cbr\u003e Woods Chapel\u003cbr\u003e Palm Light\u003cbr\u003e Bend in the Road\u003cbr\u003e In Transit\u003cbr\u003e Prayer for Peyton Manning\u003cbr\u003e Fiddler\u003cbr\u003e I'm Practically with the Band\u003cbr\u003e What Have You Gone and Done?\u003cbr\u003e On the Road with the Hampton Sisters\u003cbr\u003e Etheridge Knight's Blues\u003cbr\u003e Etheridge Knight at the Chatterbox\u003cbr\u003e Song Out of Darkness for Jake Hale\u003cbr\u003e For Kurt Vonnegut, Pilgrim Unstuck in Time\u003cbr\u003e Spring Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Quarry Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52526104314136,"sku":"9780253352248","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bloodroot-indiana-poems-paperback-softback-9780253352248","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}