Living with the Animals: Poems for Children

New Feral Press (Oyster Bay, NY)

Publication Date: September, 2021

by Norbert Krapf




Norbert Krapf’s second chapbook of poems for children, Living with the Animals, the title a line from Section 32 of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” has been released by New Feral Press and will be available for purchase after Sept. 21, 2021. Anyone interested in ordering it from the author (signed and inscribed, if you like) should contact him through Facebook Messenger and he’ll give you the details.

The book includes fifteen poems, whose titles are:

  • The Reading Owl’s Kingdom
  • Flicker Visit
  • Turtle Love Song
  • Downtown Bunnies
  • In My Neighbor’s Tree
  • Trixie
  • Blue Morpho Butterfly
  • Peccary
  • Fritz the Cat
  • Coyotes in Our City
  • Ivy and Ivan
  • Squirrel Monkey
  • Walt Whitman’s Spider
  • Emily Dickinson’s Bees
  • Emily’s Butterflies

The chapbook also incudes a black and white photo for each poem, with the exception of “Emily’s Butterflies,” for which two poems are included. In addition, there are two color photos of butterflies on the front covers, and a black and white photo on the title page. Of these photos, six are by Norbert Krapf, six are by publisher Joan Digby, and one is a photo of a collage by John Digby. The remaining photos, six, are from open Internet sources.

This new chapbook is a sequel to Peyton Potter Rides His Unicorn, which came out in the spring of 2021. Down the road, the two books will become part of a full-length collection of poems for children, The Reading Owl’s Kingdom, also the title of a poem that appeared in both these chapbooks from New Feral Press. To read this title poem, which appeared in The Flying Island, the online literary journal of The Indiana Writers Center, click on this link.






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