Midquest: A Poem

by Fred Chappell

Book Overview

Winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry Together now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain, and Earthsleep counterpoint one another in a grand symphony, Midquest. In what he has referred to as "something like a verse novel," Fred Chappell has summoned up the rich veins of memory and brings this to bear on the contemporary sensibility. Through the remarkable range of his poetic talent-in turns lyrical, dramatic, elegiac, mythic, and humorous-Chappell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807115800
• ISBN13: 9780807115800
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.4"