Contact me:
rappleye@hope.edu
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RAPPLEYE, GREG, Lecturer.
Education: B.A., Albion College (1974); J.D., The University of Michigan Law School (1976); M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College (2000).
Interests: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Fiction.
Selected Works: Holding Down the Earth: Poems (1995); A Path Between Houses (2000, Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Figured Dark (Arkansas, 2007).
Distinctions: Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry (1999); Pushcart Prize in Poetry (2000); Paumanok Poetry Award (2001); Bread Loaf Fellow in Poetry (2002).
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Path Between Houses (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2000).
These are tough--minded poems about loss, and
what comes afterwards-the difficult work of rebuilding a
life. Greg Rappleye gathers his material across a vast American
landscape, from the Florida Keys through the Nevada Desert
to the California Coast, rocketing around the country with
some strange friends-Odysseus, William Faulkner, Frank Sinatra,
and private eye Jim Rockford. Rappleye is not afraid to implicate
the self, building a heroic persona in the classic sense-a
person in whom the flaws are as celebrated as the occasional
triumph. Winner of 2000 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. |
