Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems

by Fred Chappell

OUR COPY HAS SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN.MINOR SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR & SOME CREASING ON COVERS. ALL PAGES HAVE WAVINESS & LIGHT DISCOLORATION AT TOP EDGE, NOT AFFECTING READABILITY.

Genres: Poetry

157 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

Fred Davis Chappell retired after 40 years as an English professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. He attended Duke University.

His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Academie Française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.

His literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Reviews

[David]

Fred Chappell is the least well known great poet (or the greatest unknown poet) writing in America.
His roots are in the hill country of North Carolina, but the range of his mind is as wide as thought can be. He is a gifted technician and a wise man, and this shows clearly in this fine book of poems.

[Alexandra]

Fred Chappell is an extraordinary wordsmith. His poem "Narcissus and Echo" is my all-time favorite; I cannot get it out of my head. I especially enjoyed Poems of Fantasy and the Epilogue.