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Chappells latest book, family gathering, a collection of poems about guests at a family function, brilliantly composes stories as verse, achieving his dual purpose. The author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and critical prose, chappell has. Rhonda vincent when the grass grows over me youtube. Farewell, im bound to leave you 1996 and look back all the green valley 1999follows.
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