Figured dark poems /
by Greg Rappleye.
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (xii, 88 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 Valise -- Sail 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 Gearhart -- Descent -- 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.
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.
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