Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell was born in Canton, North Carolina, United States on May 28th, 1936 and passed away at the age of 87 on January 4th, 2024.

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Fred Chappell Stats: The most read book by Fred Chappell on Book Notification is The Lodger, a Collection. The second most read book is More Shapes Than One, a Collection.

Below is a complete list of Fred Chappell books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Kirkman Family Cycle Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Kirkman Family Cycle books are I Am One of You Forever, Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You, and Brighten the Corner Where You Are.

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1
6
I Am One of You Forever
1985
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2
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
1989
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3
8
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
1996
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4
Look Back All the Green Valley
1999
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List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are A Shadow All of Light, It Is Time, Lord , and Dagon .

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It Is Time, Lord
1963
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2
Dagon
1968
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3
The Gaudy Place
1973
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4
Family Gathering
2000
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5
A Shadow All of Light
2016
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

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1
Earthsleep
1980
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2
8.7
The Somewhere Doors
1991
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List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short story collections are The Lodger, More Shapes Than One, and Backsass.

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1
The World Between The Eyes; Poems
1971
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2
River
1975
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3
Bloodfire: A Poem
1978
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4
Wind Mountain
1979
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5
Moments of Light
1980
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6
Midquest
1981
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7
Castle Tzingal a Poem
1984
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8
Source
1985
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9
The Fred Chappell Reader
1987
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10
First And Last Words
1988
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11
7.3
More Shapes Than One
1991
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12
C
1993
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13
8
The Lodger
1993
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14
Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems
1995
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15
Locales
2003
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16
Backsass
2004
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17
Shadow Box: Poems
2009
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18
Ancestors and Others
2009
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19
Masters of the Weird Tale
2014
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20
Familiars; Poems
2014
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21
Three Poems & Two Essays
2015
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22
The Archive, Vol. 73
2018
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23
As If It Were
2019
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Plow Naked: Selected Writings on Poetry
1993
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2
A Way of Happening
1998
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List of Editor's Choice Books in Publication Order

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1
Editor's Choice III: Fiction, Poetry and Art from the U. S. Small Press, 1984-1990 (With: Morty Sklar, Robert Peters)
1991
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List of Poets on Poetry Books in Publication Order

Offers lively, pointed critiques and personal insights on poetry.

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1
Four Poets on Poetry (By: Don Cameron Allen)
1959
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2
Modern Russian Poets on Poetry (By: Carl R. Proffer)
1976
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3
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76 (By: Donald Hall)
1978
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4
Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (By: Galway Kinnell)
1978
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5
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford)
1978
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6
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living (By: Maxine Kumin)
1980
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7
Open Between Us (By: David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills)
1980
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8
Thinking About Morality ) (By: William K. Frankena)
1980
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9
Talking All Morning (By: Robert Bly)
1980
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10
Pot Shots at Poetry (By: Robert Francis)
1981
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11
The Old Poetries and the New (By: Richard Kostelanetz)
1981
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12
A Company of Poets (By: Louis Simpson)
1981
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13
Don't Ask (By: Philip Levine)
1981
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14
Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (By: John Meade Haines)
1982
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15
The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81 (By: Donald Hall)
1982
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16
Claims for Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
1982
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17
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (By: Philip Larkin)
1983
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18
Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt (By: Marge Piercy)
1983
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19
Collected Prose (By: James Wright, Anne Wright)
1983
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20
Writing Like a Woman (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
1983
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21
Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (By: Marvin Bell)
1983
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22
A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews (By: A. Poulin Jr., John Logan)
1983
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23
Platonic Scripts (By: Donald Justice)
1984
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24
Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews (By: Hayden Carruth)
1984
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25
A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry ) (By: John Frederick Nims)
1985
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26
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose (By: Anne Sexton)
1985
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27
You Must Revise Your Life (By: William Stafford)
1986
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28
A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (By: Tess Gallagher)
1986
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29
Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88 (By: Donald Hall)
1988
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30
Reviews and Essays, 1936-55 (By: James Reidel, Weldon Kees)
1988
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31
Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87 (By: Charles Wright)
1988
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32
Curiosities (By: William Matthews)
1989
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33
Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties (By: Tom Clark)
1990
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34
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures (By: Nicholas Delbanco)
1990
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35
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth ( By: Charles Simic)
1990
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36
Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry (By: James McCorkle)
1990
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37
Poems Are Hard to Read (By: William Meredith)
1990
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38
Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays (By: Amy Clampitt)
1991
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39
The Line Forms Here (By: David Lehman)
1992
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40
Suicides and Jazzers (By: Hayden Carruth)
1993
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41
Words to Create a World (By: Daniel Hoffman)
1993
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42
Plow Naked
1993
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43
Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview (By: Thom Gunn)
1993
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44
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (By: Robert Creeley)
1993
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45
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry (By: Alan Williamson)
1994
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46
Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (By: Gregory Orr)
1994
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47
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller ( By: Charles Simic)
1995
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48
The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (By: Mary Kinzie)
1995
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49
Death to the Death of Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
1995
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50
Poetry Now - Poets on Poetry (By: Kerrie Pateman)
1995
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51
Poetry's Old Air (By: Marianne Boruch)
1995
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52
The Big Question (By: David Lehman)
1995
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53
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
1995
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54
Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews (By: Charles Wright)
1996
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55
The Art of Poetry (By: Kenneth Koch)
1996
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56
The Spiral of Memory (By: Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli)
1996
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57
Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen (By: Philip Booth)
1996
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58
A World That Will Hold All the People (By: Suzanne Gardinier)
1996
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59
The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose (By: Elizabeth Spires, Josephine Jacobsen)
1997
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60
A Commonplace Book (By: Douglas Crase)
1997
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61
Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s (By: Jonathan Holden)
1997
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62
The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (By: Allen Grossman)
1997
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63
Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (By: Carol Muske-Dukes)
1997
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64
The Glass Anvil (By: Andrew Hudgins)
1997
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65
Orphan Factory ( By: Charles Simic)
1997
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66
Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop (By: Anne Stevenson)
1998
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67
Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon)
1998
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68
Poetry and Consciousness (By: C.K. Williams)
1998
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69
An Introduction to Rhyme (By: Peter Dale)
1998
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70
Made with Words ( By: May Swenson)
1998
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71
All the Rage (By: William Logan)
1998
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72
An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill (By: W.S. Milne)
1998
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73
Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays (By: Anne Stevenson)
1998
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74
The Poetry of Everyday Life (By: John Hollander)
1998
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75
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (By: Tess Gallagher, Greg Simon)
1999
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76
The Route as Briefed (By: James Vincent Tate)
1999
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77
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (By: Geoffrey Paul O'Brien)
1999
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78
Responsive Reading (By: Edward Hirsch)
1999
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79
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus)
2000
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80
Poetry at One Remove (By: John Koethe)
2000
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81
Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
2000
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82
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams (By: Rachel Hadas)
2000
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83
The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (By: Ron Padgett)
2000
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84
The Gazer Within (By: James Marshall, Larry Levis, Andrew Miller, David St John, John Venable)
2001
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85
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (By: Stanley Plumly, William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews)
2001
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86
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85 (By: Philip Larkin)
2001
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87
Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (By: Linda Gregerson)
2001
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88
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (By: Mark Jarman)
2002
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89
A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large (By: Stephen Yenser)
2002
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90
The Castle of Perseverance (By: Thomas M. Disch)
2002
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91
So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (By: Philip Levine)
2002
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92
Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity (By: David Alan Mura)
2002
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93
A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs (By: Charles Simic)
2003
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94
The Metaphysician in the Dark (By: Charles Simic)
2003
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95
Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry (By: Dana Gioia)
2003
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96
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life (By: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon)
2003
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97
Fables of Representation (By: Paul Hoover)
2004
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98
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Selected Prose (By: John Ashbery)
2004
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99
Poetry and What is Real (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
2004
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100
Memory Piano ( By: Charles Simic)
2006
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101
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (By: John Yau)
2006
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102
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language (By: Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Nolan)
2007
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103
Power and Possibility (By: Elizabeth Alexander)
2007
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104
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (By: Ed Dorn, Joseph Richey, Peter Michelson)
2007
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105
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 (By: Alfred Corn)
2008
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106
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (By: Reginald Shepherd)
2008
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107
On Burning Ground (By: Sandra M. Gilbert)
2009
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108
Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues (By: A.R. Ammons, Zofia Burr)
2009
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109
Poetics of Dislocation (By: Meena Alexander)
2009
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110
The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (By: Annie Ridley Crane Finch)
2010
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111
Coming After: Essays on Poetry (By: Alice Notley)
2010
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112
A Martian Muse (By: Reginald Shepherd, Robert Philen)
2010
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113
The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (By: Martín Espada)
2010
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114
Orange Alert (By: Mohammed Kazim Ali)
2010
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115
Unauthorized Voices (By: Marilyn Hacker)
2010
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116
Two Minds of a Western Poet (By: David Mason)
2011
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117
The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose (By: Lawrence Joseph)
2011
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118
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays (By: Cole Swensen)
2011
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119
Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis (By: T.R. Hummer)
2012
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120
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (By: Natasha Sajé)
2014
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121
Yes, There Will Be Singing (By: Marilyn Krysl)
2014
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122
Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (By: Boojkdl ajdp, David Baker)
2014
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123
The Necropastoral (By: Joyelle McSweeney)
2014
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124
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (By: David Wojahn)
2015
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125
Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (By: Bruce Bond)
2015
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126
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine (By: Kazim Ali)
2015
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127
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (By: Aaron Shurin)
2016
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128
How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry (By: Khaled Mattawa)
2016
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129
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus)
2017
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130
The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry (By: Marianne Boruch)
2017
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131
The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (By: Garrett Hongo)
2017
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132
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics (By: Rigoberto González)
2017
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133
Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice (By: Claudia Keelan)
2018
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134
Someone Shot My Book (By: Julie Carr)
2018
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135
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (By: Philip Metres)
2018
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136
The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls: Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry (By: Tony Hoagland)
2019
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137
From the Valley of Bronze Camels (By: Jane Miller)
2022
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138
A Beat Beyond (By: Major Jackson, Amor Kohli)
2022
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139
Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel (By: Lucy Jane Miller)
2022
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140
To Go Into the Words (By: Norman Finkelstein)
2023
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141
Ghosts and the Overplus (By: Christina Pugh)
2024
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142
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It) (By: Nathaniel Perry)
2024
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143
How to Draw a Circle (By: Dan Beachy-Quick)
2024
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List of Fred Chappell Anthologies in Publication Order

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1
Stories of the Modern South
1977
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Third Annual Collection
1989
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3
Growing Up in the South
1991
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4
Fifth Annual Collection
1992
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5
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
1993
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6
Seventh Annual Collection
1994
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7
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
1995
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8
Cthulhu 2000
1995
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9
The Necronomicon
1996
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10
100 Menacing Little Murder Stories
1998
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11
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment
1998
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12
A New Pleiade: Selected Poems
1998
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13
Locales
2003
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14
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others
2003
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15
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers
2003
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16
Evermore
2006
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17
Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction
2007
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18
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad
2008
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19
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2010
2010
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20
Naked Came the Leaf Peeper
2011
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21
The Sound of Poets Cooking
2012
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22
Black Wings IV: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
2015
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23
27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry
2015
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24
Wonder and Glory Forever
2020
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Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell was born on May 28th, 1936. Fred passed away January 4th, 2024 at 87 years old. Fred Chappell was born in Canton, North Carolina, United States.

Fred Chappell was the author of the Fred Chappell Short Story Collections series which consists of 23 novels. The Fred Chappell Short Story Collections series started in 1971 with the novel The World Between The Eyes; Poems. The most recently released novel in the Fred Chappell Short Story Collections series was As If It Were which was released in 2019. There are no upcoming novels for the Fred Chappell Short Story Collections series.

Fred Chappell: Awards & Accolades

Chappell's books have won multiple awards, The Somewhere Doors won the World Fantasy Award, Short Fiction, in 1992. The Lodger won the World Fantasy Award, Short Fiction, in 1994.

Fred Chappell books have also been nominated for multiple awards, Third Annual Collection was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1991. More Shapes Than One was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Collection, in 1992. Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You was nominated for the Otherwise Award, Best Science Fiction, in 1996. Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, Best Anthology, in 2008. Black Wings IV: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 2016.

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Fred Chappell: F.A.Q

When was Fred Chappell Born?

Fred Chappell was born on May 28th, 1936.

When did Fred Chappell die?

Fred Chappell died on January 4th, 2024 at 87 years old.

Where was Fred Chappell Born?

Fred Chappell was born in Canton, North Carolina, United States.

What book awards has Fred Chappell won?

The Somewhere Doors: World Fantasy Award: Short Fiction (1992).
The Lodger: World Fantasy Award: Short Fiction (1994).

What was the first book Fred Chappell wrote?

The first book written by Fred Chappell was It Is Time, Lord , published in 1963.

What was the most recent book Fred Chappell wrote?

His most recently released work was As If It Were on April 3rd, 2019.

What is the most popular book by Fred Chappell?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Fred Chappell book is The Lodger. Here are his most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. The Lodger (8.00)
  2. More Shapes Than One (7.33)
  3. The Somewhere Doors (8.67)
  4. I Am One of You Forever (6.00)
  5. Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You (8.00)

How many books has Fred Chappell written?

Fred Chappell has written 37 books across 11 series and categories, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 4 books in the Kirkman Family Cycle Series
  • 5 Standalone Novels
  • 2 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 22 Short Story Collections
  • 2 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Editor's Choice Series
  • 1 book in the Poets on Poetry Series

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