Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 6:36 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.
2 Comments:
That's a beautiful distinction. It also explains why eloquence comes hard, sometimes. Thank you.
Good to see more attention given to Donoghue's fine book. Here's another sentence of his: "But even if we think we know what we can say for eloquence, what does it say for itself; what is it for or against? It is against dullness, dryness, routine, habit, 'the malady of the quotidian,' the oppressiveness of one-damn-thing-after-another. It flourishes in a language and wants to have more abundant life there." I posted a review of the book on my site on March 1 and invite all to drop by.
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