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Growing Up on Wind Mountain |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Doris Betts |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,258 Words, 7,589 Characters |
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FAREWELL, I'M BOUND TO LEAVE YOU
Fred Chappell
New York: Picador, 1996
228 pp., $21.00
As a longtime teacher of creative writing, Fred Chappell probably sees enough initiation stories to choke a paper shredder, so naturally he told William Walsh in a 1987 interview that he preferred to write about how adults, not youths, come of age. "It's been my experience that most of my friends grow up about age forty," he said. "At that time it's too late to do any good."
On his own thirty-fifth birthday--May 28, 1971--Chappell got ready to grow up, he says, by making plans to produce eight books that would mature his work as a writer. He projected four volumes of poetry, each to contain eleven poems, with each volume unified by one ...
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...s, musically written, though framed by the expectation of death on one end and its black arrival on the other, swarms with the celebration of life.
It is the same "little life" that for all Chappell's readers is "rounded with a sleep." Chappell here acknowledges fully and equally both the sadness and celebration and honors both, as only a gifted, fully initiated, grown-up writer can do. vbcrlf
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