Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 9:47 AM
I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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I don't know much about this kind of thing, but perhaps the new owner will simply be the new owner?
Talia:
No, the "new owner" is actually the old landlord. The bookstore owed something like $500,000-600,000 in back rent and the store had been closed for a number of months. The landlord simply bid $400,000 of back rent (i.e., nothing--something that had already been booked as a loss) against the entire stock of the bookstore--which had a lot of signed originals, old prints, etc.
When that stock is broken down into smaller parts, properly inventoried, etc., the speculation is that it will be sold for a substantial profit.
Oh, I see.
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