And the Book Will Look...
Exactly like this:
posted by greg rappleye at 9:06 PM
Thursday, June 21, 2007
About Me
- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
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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8 Comments:
Greg! That is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous. I am so happy for you, man. Tell me about the cover art?
Kieth:
Thank you. The painting is "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" (1875) by James McNeill Whistler. It's at the Detroit Institute of Arts and is probably Whistler's second most famous work, after his Mother, of course. The painting was publicly criticized by John Ruskin, who wrote, "I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler sued Ruskin for libel and won, in the most celebrated trial of its time, but was awarded only a single pound in damages.
The painting is a central figure in the title poem of my manuscript.
Greg Rappleye
Wow! Very nice indeed.
That is a great looking cover, Greg. Congratulations to you.
Stunning cover! Congratulations. Your panel for AWP sounds interesting too.
Sir, that is gorgeous.
Thnak you all for your kind comments.
Cool cover! I must revisit Whistler's catalogue as I'm not familiar with this particular piece.
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