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    Wild Soil
    Wild Soil
    Wild Soil
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    Wild Soil

    By Frank R. Chappell

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    Part prayer book, part anthropological treatise, the poetry of Wild Soil describes and analyzes the often contradictory motivations for human emotions and behavior. In these verses, comprised of several years worth of selected material from various stages of his life, author Frank R. Chappell explores the follies of melancholic youthfulness, exuberant love, energetic faith, complete nihilism, profane tirades, and sacred contemplation. This collection presents a narrative of the individual’s navigation through reality as a fretful sojourn of introspection that yields beautiful fruit. It celebrates the unseen victory in everyday failures, the human imperative to create meaning in all things, and the ability to stumble upon the permeating feeling of interconnectedness in our struggle for purpose. Taking an anthropological approach, this collection of poetry offers a raw and unusual consideration of humanity’s paradoxes and contradictions
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateNov 23, 2016
    ISBN9781483461151
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      Wild Soil - Frank R. Chappell

      WILD

      SOIL

      FRANK R. CHAPPELL

      Copyright © 2016 .

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      All photography is the property of the author. All engravings are the property of Woitek Skop, and have been published with the express permission of the artist. For more information on the artist, please write to the following or visit him on Facebook:

      23 Rue de la Garenne

      17420 St. Palais sur Mer

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      Interior Graphics/Art Credit: Frank R. Chappell and Woitek Skop

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016918668

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-6116-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-6115-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016918668

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 11/10/2016

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Preface

      An Adolescent Revolt

      Youth

      A Natural Cure

      Digestion

      The Suppression of Instincts

      Concerns on the Last Day of April

      NYOT

      Third

      To my Father, on a Father’s Day in Madison

      Missed the Train

      A Portrait of Freedom

      A Portrait of a Trailer Park Mother

      A Portrait of Loneliness

      A Portrait of a True Man

      A Portrait of My Ancestors

      Nephew’s Third Birthday

      Common Thoughts Conveying Culture Naturally

      Processing & Lamenting

      The Crucifixion

      Nameless Prayers

      1

      2

      3

      4

      5

      6

      7

      8

      9

      10

      11

      12

      The Product of Ritual

      Homes of the Gods

      Morning Meditation

      Monks and Monkeys

      Death of a Believer

      An Argument of Faith at Station V.

      HET

      The Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come

      Religio

      I Sing the Lament of the Golden Calf Builders

      We Are Almost Finished Here

      Images of Death

      A Monastic Deliberation

      Saint Melancholy

      In the Hollows of the Earth

      No More Worries

      Sunlight From a Slit in the Blinds

      Final Judgment

      Devotions

      To Anna

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      VIII

      IX

      X

      XI

      XII

      XIII

      XIV

      XV

      XVI

      The Invigoration

      It begins as Affect

      Natural Religion

      All At Once

      The Ones Who Fear God

      A Thoughtful Trance

      A Blank Mind is Worthless

      Thoughts on Solitude

      Worldbody

      A Beatitude

      Cynics

      Perfection in Imperfection

      Meditations

      Autumn

      He Worshipped Trees

      Peaceful Love

      Reality is Socially-Sanctioned Fantasy

      A Sharp Pill

      Where the Devil Hides

      Rock Bottom

      The Uncertain Beast

      Pyrrhic Victories

      The End Result of a failed Marriage that began with such burning Love

      Ancient Struggle

      Roaring Chickens

      Country Settlements

      Social Logic

      Blood of the World

      No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone.

      -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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