Backsass : poems / Fred Chappell.
2004
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Title
Backsass : poems / Fred Chappell.
ISBN
0807129437 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807129432 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807129445 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807129449 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807129432 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807129445 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807129449 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Description
54 pages ; 24 cm
Exhibited
2004 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)52979166
Summary
"This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from the thoroughly southern term meaning "irreverent retort," "ironic remark," or "scoffing observation." The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire, Fred Chappell, finding his contemporary era analogous to that of imperial Rome, has in Backass given in to the impulse for invective and mockery."--Jacket.
Review
"This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from the thoroughly southern term meaning "irreverent retort," "ironic remark," or "scoffing observation." The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire, Fred Chappell, finding his contemporary era analogous to that of imperial Rome, has in Backass given in to the impulse for invective and mockery."--Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
Hello 1
The Critic 2
Bringing in the Oaks 3
Someone Told Me Death Can't Take a Joke 4
Down with Democracy 5
New Year's Day 6
I Suppose War Is Okay 7
Backward 8
Losing It 9
The Nothing Which Is Not Poetry 11
Consider the Lilies of the Field 12
From My Seat beneath the White Oak 14
Help Help 16
We Habitually Assume the Mind 17
The Gentrifiers Are in Pursuit 18
The Sorrows of Intellectual Life 19
Agenda 25
No, Said St. Peter 26
Rebuilt 27
Clothing Eunices 29
Bad Luck 30
I Have Been Waiting for the Word 31
Let Them Eat Gnotobiote 32
A Knight in Shining Armor 33
Well Hung 35
The Man Who Thinks 36
Resolution and Independence 37
My Reinvention of the Peach 39
A Thanksgiving Invitation 40
Lazarus 45
Listen Up, Evildoers Everywhere, Now 46
Quintus Tells Me He Was Born 47
"You have been observed 48
The Biography of the Enemy 49
All of Us Are Everywhere 51
Deep in the Heart of Texas 52
Man Bites Dog 53
Hello Once More 54.
The Critic 2
Bringing in the Oaks 3
Someone Told Me Death Can't Take a Joke 4
Down with Democracy 5
New Year's Day 6
I Suppose War Is Okay 7
Backward 8
Losing It 9
The Nothing Which Is Not Poetry 11
Consider the Lilies of the Field 12
From My Seat beneath the White Oak 14
Help Help 16
We Habitually Assume the Mind 17
The Gentrifiers Are in Pursuit 18
The Sorrows of Intellectual Life 19
Agenda 25
No, Said St. Peter 26
Rebuilt 27
Clothing Eunices 29
Bad Luck 30
I Have Been Waiting for the Word 31
Let Them Eat Gnotobiote 32
A Knight in Shining Armor 33
Well Hung 35
The Man Who Thinks 36
Resolution and Independence 37
My Reinvention of the Peach 39
A Thanksgiving Invitation 40
Lazarus 45
Listen Up, Evildoers Everywhere, Now 46
Quintus Tells Me He Was Born 47
"You have been observed 48
The Biography of the Enemy 49
All of Us Are Everywhere 51
Deep in the Heart of Texas 52
Man Bites Dog 53
Hello Once More 54.
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