Chimes

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Tookany Creek shone of moonlight lavished on it from a sky that stretched over our big backyard. I stood at the window and it was late and I looked at the creek and it was a kind of song. I thought it was a dream and I thought that this was dreaming but I stayed there at the window and there was a shed in the backyard, it was blue like our house, but with white shutters and it was there for no pur…

About this book

*Chimes*, by American writer Adam Fieled, is a semi-autobiography in prose, beginning with the writer's birth and continuing into his teenage years. It was first released as a Blazevox print book in 2009. A second, emended pdf edition was released in 2018, and re-released in 2023. Portions of *Chimes* appeared in the fourWnineteen print anthology from fourW Press, at Charles Sturt University in Australia, and in Parisian print journal Upstairs at Duroc (issue 11).

Themes & subjects

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Setting

elkins parkwyncoteglensidephiladelphialondonwoodstockmahopac1976-1991

About the author

Adam Fieled

7 February 1976

American writer Adam Fieled was born in New York City in 1976 but raised in the Philadelphia suburb Cheltenham. He attended Penn State University in the Nineties, but eventually graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in the Aughts. His first print books, *Posit* (2 editions) and *Opera Bufa*, appeared in 2007, and were followed by *When You Bit...*, *Chimes*, *Apparition Poems*, *Equations* (3 editions), and *Cheltenham*, as well as numerous e-books and chapbooks, like *Beams*, *The White Album* (2 editions), *The Posit Trilogy*, and *The Great Recession*. Fieled also earned an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University. He currently resides in the Phila…