SKYBLUE WINDOW
By Chi Sherman
INDIANA---Former state Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf has long been drawn to the blues, a love that began when he was in grad school at Notre Dame in the 1960s. Krapf left Indiana for NYC in 1970. He wouldn't return permanently until 2004. The poet's latest collection, "Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet's Journal of Healing," took seven years to complete and includes sensitive subject matter -- some 130 poems in which Krapf confronts the sexual abuse he survived as an altar boy in his youth. Using the blues as a "healing agent," Krapf writes in four voices -- himself as a child, his adult self, the fictional Mr. Blues who serves as a kind of counselor, and the priest who abused him. He's received kind comments from friends in Jasper, has moved some audience members -- themselves survivors of abuse -- to tears, and received in November 2013 the Alpha & Omega Prize, which "celebrates art that influences religious dialogue within the United States." [link]
Thursday 15 May 2014
Little Boy Blue: A&O Prize Honoree Norbert Krapf's Sexual Healing
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