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New Poems by Four Appalachian Masters

New Poems by Four Appalachian Masters NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS--REVIEW ESSAY George Garrett Fred Chappell. Backsass: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 54 pages. $24.95 in cloth. $16.95 in trade paperback. I will not mention the Roman School of Poets which flourished in the 1970s in Rome Georgia nor the Culinary Movement which declared poetry should contain no raw ingredients such substances lacking sophistication --Fred Chappell, "The Nothing Which Is Not Poetry" THROUGH HIS VARIOUS AND INNOVATIVE FICTION, his intelligent and sensitive criticism, and, above all, more than a dozen books of poems, Fred Chappell has earned an enviable place in the permanent contemporary literary hall of fame. He has done it all, speaking to us in many voices, some wildly funny and some deeply sad, and all fluently at ease. He is easy with the elaborate and intricate verse forms of English and of several other languages, living and dead; and he can just as well do the jumpdown and jive of today's barnyard and sidewalk argot. All of this virtuosity is practiced by Chappell without losing the pitch and timbre of his hometown Appalachian accent. Ole Fred's dedicated readers--and count me as one of them ever since the beginning when he http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

New Poems by Four Appalachian Masters

Garrett, George,.
Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (3) – Jan 8, 2004
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NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS--REVIEW ESSAY George Garrett Fred Chappell. Backsass: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 54 pages. $24.95 in cloth. $16.95 in trade paperback. I will not mention the Roman School of Poets which flourished in the 1970s in Rome Georgia nor the Culinary Movement which declared poetry should contain no raw ingredients such substances lacking sophistication --Fred Chappell, "The Nothing Which Is Not Poetry" THROUGH HIS VARIOUS AND INNOVATIVE FICTION, his intelligent and sensitive criticism, and, above all, more than a dozen books of poems, Fred Chappell has earned an enviable place in the permanent contemporary literary hall of fame. He has done it all, speaking to us in many voices, some wildly funny and some deeply sad, and all fluently at ease. He is easy with the elaborate and intricate verse forms of English and of several other languages, living and dead; and he can just as well do the jumpdown and jive of today's barnyard and sidewalk argot. All of this virtuosity is practiced by Chappell without losing the pitch and timbre of his hometown Appalachian accent. Ole Fred's dedicated readers--and count me as one of them ever since the beginning when he

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