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(0)Fred Chappell
1) C: poems
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Fred Chappell has long been considered one of the South's finest writers of both fiction and poetry. C not only provides abundant justification for that assessment but also makes clear the inadequacy of the geographical stricture; Chappell is indeed a writer of world-class stature. C is of course the roman numeral for one hundred - the precise number of poems that appear in this dazzling collection. Delicate, highly wrought miracles of compression...
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"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."--Jacket.