Somewhere in Southern Indiana: Poems of Midwestern Origins

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Review: "With poet David Ignatow you may call Krapf's work 'a book of rural psalms' that celebrates the chain of generations past and still unborn. No doubt, Norbert Krapf is today's strongest poetic voice in search of German heritage," German Life; "Although these poems are deeply rooted in the ...lives of Krapf's German-Catholic ancestors, their ultimate concerns are what Faulkner called the 'old universal truths' of 'love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice,'" Arts Indiana; "With its emphasis on the specifiities of a place and its people, Krapf's poetry had deep affinities with the local color tradition of American literature. But like Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, Krapf's fore is in recognizing the spiritual interaaction between a people and their place," Sycamore Review; "The mix of sunny and dark images places the poet in a Frostian tradition as well as a Whitmanian one; Krapf's poems reverbate with the mystery of human character at the core of his family roots."

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Summary: An outstanding gift!
Review: "With poet David Ignatow you may call Krapf's work 'a book of rural psalms' that celebrates the chain of generations past and still unborn. No doubt, Norbert Krapf is today's strongest poetic voice in search of German heritage," German Life; "Although these poems are deeply rooted in the ...lives of Krapf's German-Catholic ancestors, their ultimate concerns are what Faulkner called the 'old universal truths' of 'love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice,'" Arts Indiana; "With its emphasis on the specifiities of a place and its people, Krapf's poetry had deep affinities with the local color tradition of American literature. But like Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, Krapf's fore is in recognizing the spiritual interaaction between a people and their place," Sycamore Review; "The mix of sunny and dark images places the poet in a Frostian tradition as well as a Whitmanian one; Krapf's poems reverbate with the mystery of human character at the core of his family roots."

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Summary: An outstanding gift!
Review: I received this as a college graduation gift as I was leaving my Southern Indiana home. I have treasured it since. And, it makes a great "coffee table" book.