As If It Were

As If It Were - Cover

Poems

by Fred Chappell

248 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / no illustrations

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Poetry

Paperback / 9780807169605 / April 2019
These lively retellings of Aesop's Fables display poet Fred Chappell's skillful use of poetic form to entertain readers. Humorous, serious, wise, and challenging, these poetic fables touch on the dark side of the world while brightening our view of it.

Fred Chappell is the author of more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose. He has received the Bollingen Prize, the T. S. Eliot Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. His fiction has been translated into more than a dozen languages and received the Best Foreign Book Award from the Académie Française. He was the poet laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002.

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