Finding the Grain: Pioneer Journals, Franconian Folktales, Ancestral Poems

Jasper, Indiana: Dubois County Historical Society and Herald Printing, Inc., 1977.

Price: $50.00

Softcover. First edition. 120pp. Pictorial wrappers. Top edge is lightly foxed, else a near fine copy. From the library of poet David Ignatow with his label affixed inside front wrapper. Inscribed, and Signed, by Norbert Krapf, to David Ignatow: "For David Ignatow, these voices from my southern Indiana + southern Germany past, a book printed by people who never made a book. With admiration, Norbert Krapf. Roslyn, L.I. 6/21/78." Poet Norbert Krapf was born in Jasper, Indiana in 1943. This book precedes his first full-length poetry collection, 'Digging' (from back cover). Prints pioneer journals translated from the German, Franconian folktales in the original German, with free English translation by Norbert Krapf, and ancestral voices (poems by Norbert Krapf).

Item #523184
ISBN: 0960124616

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Item #523184 Finding the Grain: Pioneer Journals, Franconian Folktales, Ancestral Poems. Norbert KRAPF.
Finding the Grain: Pioneer Journals, Franconian Folktales, Ancestral Poems