Like all relations, the extended family portrayed in this collection of poems has its odd-balls and know-it-alls, hussies and historians, sparring spouses and model marriages. More than anything, this family loves gossip. Fred Chappell portrays its members in a series of character...
The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other. Like all relations, the extended family in Fred Chappell's Family Gathering has its foibles and strengths--oddballs...