In this Book
- Songs in Sepia and Black and White
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Indiana University Press
A collaboration born of a shared love of music, photography, poetry, and Indiana, this book celebrates the history, literature, and art that informs the present and shapes our identity. Richard Fields's black and white photos are evocative imaginings of Norbert Krapf's poems, visual metaphors that extend and deepen their vision. Krapf's poems pay tribute to poets from Homer and Virgil to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wendell Berry, and to singer-songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. They also explore the poet's German heritage, question ethnic prejudice and social conflict, and praise the natural world. The book includes a cycle of 15 poems about Bob Dylan; a public poem written in response to 9/11, "Prayer to Walt Whitman at Ground Zero"; "Back Home," a poem reproduced in a stained glass panel at the Indianapolis airport; and ruminations on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, "Questions on a Wall."
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xv
- The Boy in the Saloon
- pp. 8-9
- The Boy and the Flying Squirrels
- pp. 10-11
- Walking to School
- pp. 12-14
- Falling Shadows
- p. 15
- Virgil in Hill Country
- pp. 16-17
- Woods Time
- pp. 19-21
- A Child’s Intuition
- p. 24
- Fieldstone
- pp. 25-26
- Boy Knives
- pp. 27-28
- The Mayberry Café
- p. 29
- Casey’s Question
- pp. 30-31
- White Knuckles
- p. 32
- Monon Memories
- pp. 33-35
- The Beatles Cut
- pp. 36-38
- The Barbed Wire Tattoo
- pp. 39-41
- Dogwoods and Redbuds for Rita
- pp. 42-43
- The Old America
- pp. 44-45
- 2. A Blank Piece of Paper
- pp. 47-95
- A Blank Piece of Paper
- pp. 49-50
- Basho’s Journey
- p. 54
- The Family Farm: For Wendell Berry
- pp. 55-62
- The Campfire Poets
- p. 63
- Moving in with Emily
- p. 65
- Emily Dickinson’s Travels
- pp. 66-67
- Song for Gabriela Mistral
- pp. 68-69
- Basho’s Waters
- pp. 70-71
- Looking for Walt Whitman on Campus
- pp. 73-74
- Mockingbird Memory
- pp. 75-77
- Rumi for Breakfast
- p. 85
- The Mad Underliner
- pp. 87-88
- Caveat Emptor
- p. 89
- Mulberry Blues
- pp. 90-92
- A Word Story
- pp. 93-95
- 3. Practically with the Band
- pp. 97-147
- The Fiddler
- p. 99
- Goodnight, Irene
- pp. 100-101
- I’m Practically with the Band
- pp. 102-104
- Listening to Live Music
- p. 108
- Song for Bobbie D
- p. 109
- Arlo and Bob Go Fishing
- pp. 110-111
- Song for Bob Dylan
- p. 112
- Girl of the Hill Country
- p. 113
- My Bob Dylan Dreams
- pp. 114-115
- The Franconian Tambourine Men
- pp. 116-117
- Hoosier Dylan
- pp. 118-120
- This Time ’Round
- pp. 124-125
- Tambourine Man in Hell’s Kitchen
- pp. 127-128
- Letter to Bob Dylan with One Eye Closed
- pp. 129-130
- The Day John Lennon
- pp. 131-132
- Pig Belly Blues
- pp. 133-134
- Sweet Home Indianapolis
- p. 135
- Jennie’s Song
- pp. 136-137
- Jack’s Song
- pp. 138-140
- Someone Who Misses New Orleans
- pp. 141-144
- The Night the Guitarist Broke Loose
- pp. 145-147
- 4. Moon of Falling Leaves
- Bavarian Blue
- pp. 151-152
- Fire in a Horse Trough
- p. 154
- Questions on a Wall
- pp. 155-157
- Patoka Visions
- pp. 158-159
- The Diner Was Gone
- p. 160
- Blind Man, Blind Man
- pp. 161-164
- The County Historian and the Town Drunk
- pp. 165-167
- Jack the Ripper
- pp. 168-172
- Maybe I Knew Him
- pp. 173-174
- Missing the Turn
- p. 175
- The Screech Owl’s Call
- p. 176
- Beneath the Stones
- pp. 177-178
- Eating Your Shadow
- pp. 179-180
- Promethian Prayer: To a Hawk
- pp. 181-182
- Dream While My Son Is in the Hospital
- pp. 183-184
- What She Liked
- p. 185
- What Remains
- pp. 186-187
- Wild Onion
- pp. 188-189
- Come with Me
- pp. 190-191
- Schramm Woods
- pp. 192-194
- Back in Indiana
- pp. 195-196
- Downtown Indy Freight Trains
- pp. 197-198
- The Easter Stone Speaks
- pp. 200-202
- The Float Forever Held
- p. 203
- End of the Path
- p. 204
- Saying Patoka
- p. 205
- Moon of Falling Leaves
- pp. 206-208
- Photography Credits
- pp. 209-210
- About the Author
- p. 211