Bloodroot

by Krapf, Norbert

• ISBN13: 9780253352248
• ISBN10: 025335224X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-10
• Publisher: Quarry Books

Summary

Bloodroot showcases poetry from the collected works of Jasper, Indiana, native Norbert Krapf. Spanning 35 years, these poems focus on Krapf's experiences living in southern Indiana and the intersection of his life with his German ancestry. Forty of the poems are published here for the first time.Photographs by David Pierini, inspired by Krapf's work with many taken in and around Dubois County, grace this evocative portrait of a poet and place.

Author Biography

Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf was Professor of English at Long Island University from 1970 to 2004. His books include The Country I Come From: Poems and Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems, a collaboration with photographer Darryl Jones (IUP 2006). He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

David Pierini is a staff photographer for The Herald newspaper in Jasper, Indiana. He was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2003 and 2006 by the Indiana News Photographers Association. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Foreword
From Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993)
The Forefather Arrives	p. 3
Entering the Southern Indiana Wilderness	p. 4
Butchering	p. 5
Cutting Wood	p. 6
The Woods of Southern Indiana	p. 8
Indigo Bunting	p. 10
Chamomile	p. 12
Purple Trillium	p. 13
Tulip Poplar	p. 15
Walnut	p. 17
Skinning a Rabbit	p. 19
Darkness Comes to the Woods	p. 21
Southern Indiana	p. 22
St. Meinrad Archabbey	p. 23
To Obscure Men	p. 24
Two Bricks and a Board	p. 25
My Father Young Again	p. 30
A Terre Haute Story	p. 34
Hoosier Songs	p. 36
Sisters	p. 38
A Civil War Veteran from Indiana	p. 39
Flight	p. 42
For an Old Friend	p. 43
Basketball Season Begins	p. 45
Somewhere in Southern Indiana	p. 46
From Bittersweet along the Expressway (2000)
Arriving on Paumanok	p. 51
Sycamore on Main Street	p. 52
Ancestral Voices	p. 53
Weeping Willow	p. 54
Dogwood	p. 55
Gatsby Country	p. 56
The Roslyn Forge	p. 57
Song of the Music Stand	p. 58
A Midwestern Story	p. 60
A Dream of Plum Blossoms	p. 63
From The Country I Come From (2002)
A Whiff of Fresh Sheets	p. 69
Full Circle	p. 71
The Language of Place	p. 72
The Language of Species	p. 74
What We Lost in Southern Indiana	p. 75
The Buffalo Trace	p. 77
What the Miami Call Themselves	p. 79
Song of the Mississinewa	p. 81
Mississinewa River Lament	p. 82
Mississinewa Cottonwood Leaf	p. 84
Lines Heard in Northern Indiana Cornfields	p. 86
May Apple	p. 88
Fire and Ice	p. 90
One Voice from Many	p. 92
Pastoral Poetics	p. 97
The Corn Cave	p. 99
Hauling Hay	p. 101
Hayloft	p. 103
Milk Music	p. 104
The Labor Day Boxes	p. 105
The Horseradish Man	p. 106
When the House Was New	p. 108
Woods Hymn	p. 109
Bloodroot	p. 110
His Only Hickory Sapling	p. 112
The Martin Box	p. 114
The Potato Barrows	p. 116
Gathering Hickory Nuts	p. 118
The Quilters	p. 120
Saturday Night at the Calumet	p. 122
Because I Could Not Stop	p. 123
Song for Bob Dylan	p. 124
Odysseus in Indiana	p. 125
Return to a Mighty Fortress	p. 127
Song for a Sister	p. 130
The Dropped Pigskin	p. 132
Dream of a Hanging Curve	p. 134
Dorothy and the Jewish Coat	p. 136
The Mandolin and the Tenor	p. 137
Let Morning Light	p. 139
Hugging the Spirit	p. 141
Farewell Lullaby	p. 143
At Least Now	p. 144
The Reunion	p. 146
Places	p. 147
From Looking for God's Country (2005)
Letter from a Star above Southern Indiana	p. 151
The Nest	p. 153
Strawberry-Patch Song	p. 154
The Gardener	p. 155
Chicken in the Woods	p. 157
Godfather's Fishing Knife	p. 158
Patoka River Canoe Trip	p. 160
Barnyard Hoops	p. 161
The Schneebrunzer	p. 162
What the Map Says	p. 163
God's Country	p. 165
The Storyteller	p. 167
Where Trees Are Tall	p. 169
The Piankashaw in the Sycamore	p. 170
Coming into the Valley	p. 172
Dark and Deep	p. 174
Moon Shadows	p. 175
The Time Has Come	p. 176
From Invisible Presence (2006)
Gate	p. 181
The Language of Red	p. 182
Corn Blowing in the Wind	p. 183
The Blue Road	p. 184
The Space Between	p. 185
Bovine Beauty	p. 186
Corn Syllables	p. 187
Cut Earth	p. 188
More!	p. 189
Cabin	p. 190
Whitman's Web	p. 191
Deaton's Woods	p. 192
Woods Meditation	p. 194
David Ignatow's Trees	p. 195
Bare Tree Song	p. 196
Tale of the Red Barn	p. 197
Two Kittens	p. 198
Midwestern Scene	p. 199
A Red Barn for the loads	p. 200
What's in Wood?	p. 201
I Remember When	p. 202
Close Look	p. 203
Flower Interior	p. 204
Rilke's Shadows	p. 205
Army of Orange	p. 206
Left in a House	p. 207
What If Fish?	p. 208
For Whom the Bells	p. 209
Picket Fence	p. 210
Rest	p. 211
Walking the Streets	p. 212
Windows	p. 213
The Court House Bench	p. 214
Man in Red Cap	p. 215
Neighborhood Muse	p. 216
Hoosier Poetry Reading	p. 217
Song of the Red Covered Bridge	p. 218
Local News: Poems 2005-2007
Sister Soap	p. 223
Clothesline Saga	p. 224
Charlie	p. 225
Little Red Worms from Tennessee	p. 226
Dolls and Guns	p. 227
The Local News	p. 228
Two Bottles of Beer	p. 229
Cemetery Wind	p. 230
The Egg in My Hand	p. 231
Lindauer's Woods	p. 232
Father, Teach Me	p. 233
Old Henry	p. 235
Wilson's Drugstore	p. 237
Sister Query	p. 238
Rockroading	p. 240
The Rustic Tavern	p. 242
Fishing Again after Many Years	p. 243
Patoka River Carp	p. 244
The Blueberry Bush	p. 245
Call of the Quail	p. 246
The Rosary	p. 247
A Silent Prayer	p. 249
Eighth Anniversary	p. 251
Brother, Brother	p. 252
Indiana Sycamore	p. 254
Patoka Lake Morning	p. 255
Woods Chapel	p. 256
Palm Light	p. 257
A Bend in the Road	p. 258
In Transit	p. 260
Prayer to Peyton Manning	p. 262
Fiddler	p. 263
I'm Practically with the Band	p. 264
What Have You Gone and Done?	p. 266
On the Road with the Hampton Sisters	p. 269
Etheridge Knight's Blues	p. 270
Etheridge Knight at the Chatterbox	p. 271
Song Out of the Dark for Jake Hale	p. 273
For Kurt Vonnegut, Pilgrim Unstuck in Time	p. 276
Spring Waters	p. 278
List of Photography Credits	p. 279
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