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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462442203321

Autore

Rappleye Greg

Titolo

Figured dark [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Greg Rappleye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2007

ISBN

1-61075-151-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 p.)

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

American poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; In the Great Field at Mount Holyoke, under a Dome of Stars; Caller, What is your Question?; Rainy Afternoon at the Gotham Book Mart; Not that Happiness; Black Dog; Self-portrait, with Epiphany to Come; For the Lord G-d Bird, No Longer Extinct; At the Museum of Whiskey History; My Mother Thinks She's Peggy Lee; Gentians; Near Gatlinburg; After the Divorce; After an Illustration by Rockwell Kent For Moby-Dick, in which a Whale Takes a Dory in its Maw, and Heads for the Bottom of the Sea; Lost-Love Ghazals; Feeder; Archie Babcock Explains the Accident to John Berryman's Biographer

Exile ValiseSail On, Sailor; Making a Path to the Blackberries; Figured Dark; Memories of Pittsburgh and Stern; American Kestrel; Blue Angels; Mason's Kitchenettes; The Fish Lamp on the Cover of Coastal Living Magazine; Glaucoma; In Ambient Light; Obbligato; Letter to M., from Swannanoa; Lilacs for Instance; Biopsy; After the Diagnosis; Swimming at Night; Elegy for Light and Balance; The Body, Burning; Hay Devil; Discontinuous Narrative; Letter to the Chairwoman of the Reunion Committee; Dancing with the Crack Whores, at the Homeless Shelter Run by My Wife; Were We Speaking, Had You Asked

Letter to Robert in GearhartDescent; Carolina Woodpecker; At 48, Walking My Baby Past the Voodoo Lounge; Blackbirds; The Salt Cairn; Lepidopterist; On a Visit to His Namesake City, St. Paul Walks Six Blocks of Goodrich Avenue

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Greg Rappleye is corporation counsel for Ottawa County, Grand



Haven, Michigan. He's the author of two poetry collections, Holding Down the Earth and A Path Between Houses, and two chapbooks. A past Bread Loaf Fellow in poetry, he has won a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, and the Brittingham Prize, and he was the first runner up for the 2007 Dorset Prize.</div>