Midquest

Together now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mountain, and Earthsleep counterpoint one another in a grand symphony, Midquest. In what he has referred to as “something like a verse novel,” Fred Chappell has summoned up the rich veins of memory and brings this to bear on the contemporary sensibility. Through the remarkable range of his poetic talent—in turns lyrical, dramatic, elegiac, mythic, and humorous—Chappell brings us to the elemental: this encounter with earth, air, fire, and w...