Backsass: Poems - Couverture souple

Chappell, Fred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807129445 ISBN 13 : 9780807129449

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from that thoroughly southern term meaning "irreverent retort," "ironic remark," or "scoffing observation." The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire. Fred Chappell, finding his contemporary era analogous to that of imperial Rome, has in Backsass given in to the impulse for invective and mockery. Whether addressing the political, the poetical, or the practical, Chappell brandishes his lexical sword, ribbing our shortcomings, offering tonic advice, and occasionally shedding a tear for our fallen ideals. Some poetry is fine wine. Backsass is the driest of martinis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Before his death in 2024, Fred Chappell published more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose. Honors bestowed on his work include the Bollingen Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. His fiction was translated into more than a dozen languages and received the Best Foreign Book Award from the Académie Française. A native of Canton in the mountains of western North Carolina, Chappell was the state's poet laureate from 1997 to 2002 and an English professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro for forty years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807129445
• ISBN 13: 9780807129449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
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