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Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf was Professor of English at Long Island University from 1970 47to 2004. His books include The Country I Come From: Poems and Invisible Presence: A Walk through Indiana in Photographs and Poems, a collaboration with photographer Darryl Jones (IUP 2006). He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.David Pierini is a staff photographer for The Herald newspaper in Jasper, Indiana. He was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2003 and 2006 by the Indiana News Photographers Association. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

• CONTENTS: Poems List I. Somewhere in Southern Indiana (1993) The Forefather ArrivesEntering the Southern Indiana WildernessButcheringCutting WoodThe Woods of Southern IndianaIndigo BuntingChamomilePurple TrilliumTulip PoplarWalnutSkinning a RabbitDarkness Comes to the WoodsSouthern IndianaSt. Meinrad ArchabbeyTo Obscure menTwo Bricks and a BoardMy Father Young AgainA Terre Haute StoryHoosier SongsSistersA Civil War Veteran from IndianaFlightFor an Old FriendBasketball Season BeginsSomewhere in Southern Indiana II. Bittersweet Along the Expressway (2000) Arriving on PaumanokSycamore on Main StreetAncestral VoicesWeeping WillowDogwoodGatsby CountryThe Roslyn ForgeSong of the Music StandA Midwestern StoryA Dream of Plum Blossoms III. The Country I Come From (2002) A Whiff of Fresh SheetsFull CircleThe Language of PlaceThe Language of SpeciesWhat We Lost in Southern IndianaThe Buffalo TraceWhat the Miami Call ThemselvesSong of the MississinewaMississinewa River LamentMississinewa Cottonwood LeafLines Heard in Northern Indiana CornfieldsMayappleFire and IceOne Voice from ManyPastoral PoeticsThe Corn CaveHauling HayHayloftMilk MusicThe Labor Day BoxesThe Horseradish ManWhen the House Was NewWoods HymnBloodrootHis Only Hickory SaplingThe Martin BoxThe Potato BarrowsGathering Hickory NutsThe QuiltersSaturday Night at the CalumetBecause I Could Not StopSong for Bob DylanOdysseus in IndianaReturn to a Mighty FortressSong for a SisterThe Dropped PigskinDream of a Hanging CurveDorothy and the Jewish CoatThe Mandolin and the TenorLet Morning LightHugging the SpiritFarewell LullabyAt Least Now The ReunionPlaces IV. Looking for God's Country (2005) Letter from a Star Above Southern IndianaThe NestStrawberry-Patch SongThe GardenerChicken in the WoodsGodfather's Fishing KnifePatoka River Canoe TripBarnyard HoopsThe SchneebrunzerWhat the Map SaysGod's CountryThe Storyteller Where Trees Are TallThe Piankashaw in the SycamoreComing into the ValleyDark and DeepMoon ShadowThe Time Has Come V. Invisible Presence (2006) GateThe Language of RedCorn Blowing in the WindThe Blue RoadThe Space BetweenBovine BeautyCorn SyllablesCut EarthMorelCabinWhitman's WebDeaton's WoodsWoods MeditationDavid Ignatow's TreesBare Tree SongTale of the Red BarnTwo KittensMidwestern SceneA Red Barn for the JoadsWhat's in Wood?I Remember WhenClose LookFlower InteriorRilke's ShadowArmy of OrangeLeft in a HouseWhat If Fish?For Whom the Bell?Picket FenceRestWalking the StreetsWindowsThe Court House BenchThe Man in the Red CapNeighborhood MuseHoosier Poetry ReadingSong of the Red Covered Bridge VI. Local News: Poems 2005-2007 Sister SoapClothesline SagaCharlieLittle Red Worms from TennesseeDolls and GunsThe Local NewsTwo Bottles of BeerCemetery WindThe Egg in My HandLindauer's WoodsFather, Teach MeOld HenryWilson's DrugstoreRockroadingThe Rustic TavernSister QueryFishing Again After Many YearsPatoka River CarpThe Blueberry BushCall of the QuailThe RosarySilent PrayerEighth AnniversaryBrother, BrotherIndiana SycamorePatoka Lake MorningWoods ChapelPalm LightBend in the RoadIn TransitPrayer for Peyton ManningFiddlerI'm Practically with the BandWhat Have You Gone and Done?On the Road with the Hampton SistersEtheridge Knight's BluesEtheridge Knight at the ChatterboxSong Out of Darkness for Jake HaleFor Kurt Vonnegut, Pilgrim Unstuck in TimeSpring Waters

"Anyone who doubts that poetry can reveal the history of a person or a place should read the collected poems of Indiana poet laureate Norbert Krapf. March 2009"—Indiana Magazine of History"Krapf's poems are sensually rich and wildly accessible. . . . This is a collection to be savored.February 1, 2009"—Michael Zimmerman, Indianapolis Star"A new poetic voice has risen out of the hills and woods of southern Indiana, Hoosier poet laureate Norbert Krapf. . . . What one has been endowed with is a major part of what one has to endow the future. Out of this endowment Krapf has given us a great legacy."—John D. Groppe, Valparaiso Poetry Review"Krapf's poems are a conglomeration of wildlife, people, plants, nature, and land, with vivid imagery allowing the reader to practically smell the flowers, walk with bare feet through the grass, and feel the wind on their cheek.March/April 2009"—Northern Indiana Lakes Magazine"Norbert Krapf is one of our distinguished and moving American poets. The new poems seem among his best."—Robert Phillips"The test of 'poetry of place' is whether it feels perfectly familiar to a reader who lives there. I'm a southern Indiana native who feels right at home in Norbert Krapf's poems."—James Alexander Thom