Familiars
Solitary, graceful, and contemplative, cats have inspired poets from Charles Baudelaire to Margaret Atwood to serve as their chroniclers and celebrants. They have appeared, wrapped in their inscrutability, in verse both sensual and spiritual, weary and whimsical. With Familiars, Fred Chappell proves himself a worthy addition to the fellowship of poets who have sought to immortalize their beloved cats. Here are cats as personalities, cats as art objects and historical figures, cats as reflections of human temperament. Chappell salutes the literary cats of decades past-George Herriman's happy-go-lucky Krazy Kat, Don Marquis's grande dame mehitabel-and the imagined cats who claim as their companions the characters from Chappell's own past poems. The cats in Familiars are alert and affectionate, equal parts cherished friends and unknowable mysteries.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080715749X
ISBN13:9780807157497
Release Date:August 2014
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
The very best read for our very best and honorable cat companions
Published by Caretaker for the 1014 North Street clan. , 6 months ago
This is a lovely tribute to cats I always send a copy to dear friends who have lost beloved cats to the "heavyside layer."
His eloquently written verse helps to ease the pain of loss.
Highly recommended for feline friends. A classic like "old possum.,s book of classical cats"🐈😻❤️ by TS Eliot.
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