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Title

Bloodroot : Indiana poems / poems by Norbert Krapf ; photographs by David Pierini.

Author

Krapf, Norbert, 1943-

Publication

Bloomington : Quarry Books, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

xiii, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Indiana > Poetry

Contents

Foreword / James Alexander Thom -- 1. From Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993) -- The Forefather Arrives -- Entering the Southern Indiana Wilderness -- Butchering -- Cutting Wood -- The Woods of Southern Indiana -- Indigo Bunting -- Chamomile -- Purple Trillium -- Tulip Poplar -- Walnut -- Skinning a Rabbit -- Darkness Comes to the Woods -- Southern Indiana -- St. Meinrad Archabbey -- To Obscure Men -- Two Bricks and a Board -- My Father Young Again -- A Terre Haute Story -- Hoosier Songs -- Sisters -- A Civil War Veteran from Indiana -- Flight -- For an Old Friend -- Basketball Season Begins -- Somewhere in Southern Indiana -- 2. From Bittersweet along the Expressway (2000) -- Arriving on Paumanok -- Sycamore on Main Street -- Ancestral Voices -- Weeping Willow -- Dogwood -- Gatsby Country -- The Roslyn Forge -- Song of the Music Stand -- A Midwestern Story -- A Dream of Plum Blossoms -- 3. From The Country I Come From (2002) -- A Whiff of Fresh Sheets -- Full Circle -- The Language of Place -- The Language of Species -- What We Lost in Southern Indiana -- The Buffalo Trace -- What the Miami Call Themselves -- Song of the Mississinewa -- Mississinewa River Lament -- Mississinewa Cottonwood Leaf -- Lines Heard in Northern Indiana Cornfields -- May Apple -- Fire and Ice -- One Voice from Many -- Pastoral Poetics -- The Corn Cave -- Hauling Hay -- Hayloft -- Milk Music -- The Labor Day Boxes -- The Horseradish Man -- When the House Was New -- Woods Hymn -- Bloodroot -- His Only Hickory Sapling -- The Martin Box -- The Potato Barrows -- Gathering Hickory Nuts -- The Quilters -- Saturday Night at the Calumet -- Because I Could Not Stop -- Song for Bob Dylan -- Odysseus in Indiana -- Return to a Mighty Fortress -- Song for a Sister -- The Dropped Pigskin -- Dream of a Hanging Curve -- Dorothy and the Jewish Coat -- The Mandolin and the Tenor -- Let Morning Light -- Hugging the Spirit -- Farewell Lullaby -- At Least Now -- The Reunion -- Places -- 4. From Looking for God's Country (2005) -- Letter from a Star above Southern Indiana -- The Nest -- Strawberry-Patch Song -- The Gardener -- Chicken in the Woods -- Godfather's Fishing Knife -- Patoka River Canoe Trip -- Barnyard Hoops -- The Schneebrunzer -- What the Map Says -- God's Country -- The Storyteller -- Where Trees Are Tall -- The Piankashaw in the Sycamore -- Coming into the Valley -- Dark and Deep -- Moon Shadows -- The Time Has Come -- 5. From Invisible Presence (2006) -- Gate -- The Language of Red -- Corn Blowing in the Wind -- The Blue Road -- The Space Between -- Bovine Beauty -- Corn Syllables -- Cut Earth -- More! -- Cabin -- Whitman's Web -- Deaton's Woods -- Woods Meditation -- David Ignatow's Trees -- Bare Tree Song -- Tale of the Red Barn -- Two Kittens -- Midwestern Scene -- A Red Barn for the loads -- What's in Wood? -- I Remember When -- Close Look -- Flower Interior -- Rilke's Shadows -- Army of Orange -- Left in a House -- What If Fish? -- For Whom the Bells -- Picket Fence -- Rest -- Walking the Streets -- Windows -- The Court House Bench -- Man in Red Cap -- Neighborhood Muse -- Hoosier Poetry Reading -- Song of the Red Covered Bridge -- 6. Local News: Poems 2005-2007 -- Sister Soap -- Clothesline Saga -- Charlie -- Little Red Worms from Tennessee -- Dolls and Guns -- The Local News -- Two Bottles of Beer -- Cemetery Wind -- The Egg in My Hand -- Lindauer's Woods -- Father, Teach Me -- Old Henry -- Wilson's Drugstore -- Sister Query -- Rockroading -- The Rustic Tavern -- Fishing Again after Many Years -- Patoka River Carp -- The Blueberry Bush -- Call of the Quail -- The Rosary -- A Silent Prayer -- Eighth Anniversary -- Brother, Brother -- Indiana Sycamore -- Patoka Lake Morning -- Woods Chapel -- Palm Light -- A Bend in the Road -- In Transit -- Prayer to Peyton Manning -- Fiddler -- I'm Practically with the Band -- What Have You Gone and Done? -- On the Road with the Hampton Sisters -- Etheridge Knight's Blues -- Etheridge Knight at the Chatterbox -- Song Out of the Dark for Jake Hale -- For Kurt Vonnegut, Pilgrim Unstuck in Time -- Spring Waters.

ISBN

• 9780253352248 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 025335224X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008013742
• 40015952076

OCLC

• ocn216935837
• 216935837
• SCSB-5435655

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries