Author

Publication

2014-08-04 - LSU Press

Language

English

Word Count

20,000 words, Guess

Page Count

80 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10080715749X
  • ISBN-139780807157497
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014005811
  • OCLC Control Number871536608
  • Better World Books9780807157497
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3553.H298 A6 2014
  • LCCPS3553.H298A6 2014

Description

Solitary, graceful, and contemplative, cats have inspired poets from Charles Baudelaire to Margaret Atwood to serve as their chroniclers and celebrants. Cats, wrapped in their inscrutability, have appeared in verse both sensual and spiritual, weary and whimsical. With Familiars, Fred Chappell proves himself a worthy addition to the fellowship of poets who have sought to immortalize felines. Chappell presents cats as personalities, cats as art objects and historical figures, cats as reflections of human temperament. He salutes the literary cats of decades past - George Herriman's happy-go-lucky Krazy Kat, Don Marquis's grande dame mehitabel - and imagined cats who claim as their companions the characters from Chappell's own past poems. The cats in Familiars are alert and affectionate, equal parts cherished friends and unknowable mysteries. -- from back cover.

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Other Editions

  • Familiars: PoemsPaperbackLSU Press2014-08-04

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