Description Inspired by ancient, modern, and contemporary writings, Fred Chappell\'s sprightly new collection of verse, As If It Were, presents tales, anecdotes, pointed stories, and aphorisms to spark the conscience of readers young and old.
He was the poet laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002..
His fiction has been translated into more than a dozen languages and received the Best Foreign Book Award from the Académie Française.
Eliot Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize.
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About the Author Fred Chappell is the author of more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose.
With its informal, even nonchalant tone of address and lush, polished language, As If It Were endows homespun materials with alchemical insights.
Chappell illustrates how the fable offers a timeless form of wisdom, surprising us with revelations that challenge what we think we already know, along with fresh observations of daily experiences.
Playful and even zany, the humor in these Poems pulls readers into a world filled with noble lions, crafty foxes, predacious wolves, longsuffering asses, and fashionable peacocks.
Description Inspired by ancient, modern, and contemporary writings, Fred Chappell\'s sprightly new collection of verse, As If It Were, presents tales, anecdotes, pointed stories, and aphorisms to spark the conscience of readers young and old
