Invisible Presence

by Krapf, Norbert

• ISBN13: 9780253347534
• ISBN10: 025334753X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-31
• Publisher: Quarry Books

Summary

The essence of the Indiana countryside in impressionistic photographs and poems

Author Biography

Darryl D. Jones is an accomplished photographer and author of many books, including Indianapolis (IUP, 1994) and Amish Life (IUP, 2005). He lives in Freedom, Indiana.

Norbert Krapf is Emeritus Professor of English and Poet Laureate at the C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University. His books of poems include The Country I Come From, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and Looking for God's Country. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. XI
Preface	p. XIII
Acknowledgments	p. XVII
Along the Roads
Gate	p. 2
The Language of Red	p. 4
Corn Blowing in the Wind	p. 6
Someplace Good	p. 8
Curve in the Road	p. 10
Shady Curve	p. 12
Shady Road	p. 14
On Wide Waters	p. 16
Straight Road	p. 18
Under Crimson Leaves	p. 20
The Blue Road	p. 22
Crest of the Hill	p. 24
Into the Fields
Pasture Scene	p. 28
The Space Between	p. 30
The Sound	p. 32
Horse & Tree	p. 34
Field of Motion	p. 36
A Woman on a Horse	p. 38
Sylvia Plath's Ride	p. 40
Fog & Mist	p. 42
Change	p. 44
Bovine Beauty	p. 46
Corn Syllables	p. 48
Hay Bale Cycle	p. 50
Hay Bales of the World	p. 52
John Deere	p. 54
Cut Earth	p. 56
Dark Clouds	p. 58
Goldenrod	p. 60
The Cottontail	p. 62
Sky Fire	p. 64
Ice Trees	p. 66
Ethereal Smoke Ring	p. 68
Into the Woods
New Leaves	p. 72
Jack-in-the-Pulpit	p. 74
Morel	p. 76
Dappled Leaves	p. 78
Cabin	p. 80
Pickup	p. 82
Walking in Woods	p. 84
Whitman's Web	p. 86
From Above	p. 88
Deaton's Woods	p. 90
Woods Meditation	p. 92
A Few Dry Leaves	p. 94
Tree Vision	p. 96
Faith	p. 98
Winter Tree	p. 100
David Ignatow's Trees	p. 102
Bare Tree Song	p. 104
In the Barnyard
Pump	p. 108
Tale of the Red Barn	p. 110
Midwestern Scene	p. 112
Leaning Barn	p. 114
Barn Secrets	p. 116
Red Tractor	p. 118
Barnyard Moral	p. 120
Boy on Horse	p. 122
Two Kittens	p. 124
In an Eye	p. 126
Cattle Stare Down	p. 128
American Dream	p. 130
Circles & Lines	p. 132
Freudian Quiz	p. 134
The New Kingdom	p. 136
A Red Barn for the Joads	p. 138
What's in Wood?	p. 140
In the Garden
Over the Footbridge	p. 144
I Remember When	p. 146
Baby Bird Flowers	p. 148
Georgia O'Keeffe's Flowers	p. 150
Blake's Vision	p. 152
Close Look	p. 154
Siamese Eyes	p. 156
In Defense of the Zinnia	p. 158
Emily Dickinson's Inebriation	p. 160
Anne Bradstreet's Garden	p. 162
Flower Interior	p. 164
Emerson's Rhodora	p. 166
The Angle	p. 168
Robert Frost's Heal-all	p. 170
Dark Blue	p. 172
Rilke's Shadows	p. 174
Low to the Ground	p. 176
Army of Orange	p. 178
Cockscombs & Mums	p. 180
Gold Leaf	p. 182
Red Berries	p. 184
Into Town
Old Brick House	p. 188
Left in a House	p. 190
Mystery	p. 192
What If Fish?	p. 194
The Footprint	p. 196
What Would You Say?	p. 198
Design for a Deck	p. 200
Dog Still Life	p. 202
For Whom the Bells	p. 204
At the Ice Cream Altar	p. 206
Picket Fence	p. 208
Iron Fence	p. 210
Light	p. 212
Rest	p. 214
Walking the Streets	p. 216
Windows	p. 218
Bouquet of Light	p. 220
Candles	p. 222
Neighborhood Muse	p. 224
Man in Red Cap	p. 226
The County Fair Queen Speaks	p. 228
Viaduct	p. 230
I Buy Red	p. 232
Field Sculpture	p. 234
The Court House Bench	p. 236
Hoosier Poetry Reading	p. 238
Along the Water
Steamboat	p. 242
Dock Test	p. 244
Boy, Dogs, River	p. 246
Fish-Story Competition	p. 248
Reflections	p. 250
Red Light on Water	p. 252
Pond Song	p. 254
Moonlit Dock	p. 256
In Sky, in Water	p. 258
Song of the Red Covered Bridge	p. 260
Waterfall	p. 262
The Photographs	p. 265
Index: First Lines	p. 269
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