SONGS IN SEPIA AND BLACK AND WHITE
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101 poems by
Norbert Krapf Paperback: ca. 234
pages To order from the publisher |
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Black and White from Indiana University Press is
A collaboration born of a shared love of music, photography, poetry, and Indiana, this book celebrates the history, literature, and art that informs the present and shapes our identity. Richard Fields’s black and white and sepia photos are evocative imaginings of Norbert Krapf’s poems, visual metaphors that extend and deepen their vision. Krapf’s poems pay tribute to poets from Homer and Virgil to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wendell Berry, and to singer-songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. They also explore the poet’s Indiana German heritage, question ethnic prejudice and social conflict, and praise the natural world. The book includes a cycle of 15 poems about Bob Dylan; a public poem written in response to 9/11, “Prayer to Walt Whitman at Ground Zero; "Back Home" a poem reproduced in a stained glass panel at the Indianapolis airport; and ruminations on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,“Questions on a Wall.” |
Praise for Songs in Sepia & Black and White
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Songs in Sepia and Black and White is about the
influences that make us; in these 101 poems
Benjamin Hedin, Editor, Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader
David Amram, composer, multi-instrumentalist, author Pursuing a tri-fold creative concept that unites poetry, art in the form of photography, and music is certainly not a light challenge. Norbert Krapf has mastered it with remarkable virtuosity and once again reinforced his reputation as the pre-eminent German-American poet of the English language. Gert Niers, from a review in Yearbook of German-American Studies. Full review.Harking to old family portraits and Fields' tactile and moody photos, these songs are visual as well. They show and tell of a life widely ranging across Americana yet never uprooted from the Southern Indiana woods of the poet's boyhood and the German centuries in his blood. "You can get to the universal by starting with where you are," {Krapf] says. "They (the makers of songs) liberated me to do that." Dan Carpenter, “Singing Above the Noise,” Indianapolis Star, 23 Sept. 2012 |
Pairings of Poems and Photos by Richard Fields Monon Memories |
Links to Poem Texts krapfpoetry.net: Seastories.org: Contemporary American Voices Website Valparaiso Poetry Review |
Links to Poems Performed with Musical Backing See "Related Links" at IU Press Video with Musical Backing by Tim Grimm
and Bobbie Lancaster IU Press podcasts of Sepia poems Collaboration with Gordon Bonham: Collaboration with Monika Herzig Trio:
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