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Authorship Fred Chappell (bio) We both were sleeping when the sheet was spreadFrom one edge to the other of our worldAnd in our sleep heard no pit pat outsideThe window, no soft sift of weather wideAnd quiet as a rich wish left unsaid.A ghost frost filled the room where we lay curled,Burrowed into the cleft depth of our bed. We woke to read the swift script set downAcross this world patient as the moon:Neat holograph of a portly gray raccoon. [End Page 120] Fred Chappell Fred Chappell is a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a winner of the Bollingen Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers. A native of Canton, North Carolina, he recently retired from a forty-year career teaching English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of The Fred Chappell Reader and literally dozens of books including poetry, stories, and novels as well as a considerable body of literary criticism. Copyright © 2010 Berea College
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