Shadow Box

by Fred Chappell

Book Overview

In this sharply innovative collection, renowned poet Fred Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form--the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume's title, each piece consists of an inner world contained, framed, supported by an outer--the two interdependent, sometimes supplementary, often contrary. For example, the grim but gorgeous "The Caretakers" is a landscape that reveals another image inside it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134538
• ISBN13: 9780807134535
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"