Backsass : poems / Fred Chappell.

Author/creator Chappell, Fred
Other author Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Other author Chappell, Fred, 1936-2024 inscriber.
Other author Chappell, Sue, inscriber.
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Description54 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Poetry.

Contents Hello 1 -- The Critic 2 -- Bringing in the Oaks 3 -- Someone Told Me Death Can't Take a Joke 4 -- Down with Democracy 5 -- New Year's Day 6 -- I Suppose War Is Okay 7 -- Backward 8 -- Losing It 9 -- The Nothing Which Is Not Poetry 11 -- Consider the Lilies of the Field 12 -- From My Seat beneath the White Oak 14 -- Help Help 16 -- We Habitually Assume the Mind 17 -- The Gentrifiers Are in Pursuit 18 -- The Sorrows of Intellectual Life 19 -- Agenda 25 -- No, Said St. Peter 26 -- Rebuilt 27 -- Clothing Eunices 29 -- Bad Luck 30 -- I Have Been Waiting for the Word 31 -- Let Them Eat Gnotobiote 32 -- A Knight in Shining Armor 33 -- Well Hung 35 -- The Man Who Thinks 36 -- Resolution and Independence 37 -- My Reinvention of the Peach 39 -- A Thanksgiving Invitation 40 -- Lazarus 45 -- Listen Up, Evildoers Everywhere, Now 46 -- Quintus Tells Me He Was Born 47 -- "You have been observed 48 -- The Biography of the Enemy 49 -- All of Us Are Everywhere 51 -- Deep in the Heart of Texas 52 -- Man Bites Dog 53 -- Hello Once More 54.
Review "This collection of humorous and satiric verse takes its title from the thoroughly southern term meaning "irreverent retort," "ironic remark," or "scoffing observation." The ancient Roman poet Juvenal noted that his world made it hard not to write satire, Fred Chappell, finding his contemporary era analogous to that of imperial Rome, has in Backass given in to the impulse for invective and mockery."--BOOK JACKET.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy 30372015855924 autographed on t.p. "Fred Chappell" and inscribed "6-24-09, For Stuart [Wright] -- my ole pal -- Fred Chappell." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #162.18. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Fred Chappell Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017040566 inscribed on title page "For Stuart [Wright] ... Fred & Susan [Chappell]." Paperback. Laid in is a typed and signed letter from Fred Chappell to Wright (March 31, 2008). Stuart Wright Book Collection #162.19. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Fred Chappell Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copies purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
LCCN 2003019395
ISBN0807129437 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807129432 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807129445 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807129449 (pbk. : alk. paper)