Two Green-Breasted Hummingbirds (1863-1864)
By Martin Johnson Heade. This is one for which a chromolithograph survives.
Brazilian Hummingbirds II (1864-1865)
This is one of the chromolithographs.
posted by greg rappleye at 5:11 PM
Saturday, May 31, 2008
By Martin Johnson Heade. This is one for which a chromolithograph survives.
Brazilian Hummingbirds II (1864-1865)
This is one of the chromolithographs.
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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- Thought for the Day
- The Poet at 55
- On Narrative and Lyric
- Supporting Cast
- Finished First Draft
- A Passing Thought--Mid-draft
- Our Ship
6 Comments:
Wow. Those are beautiful. I was just at the DIA and saw one of his hummingbird paintings -- I think it was called "Hummingbirds with Orchids." I thought of you, of course, and I wondered if you'd be willing to say something on your blog about what absorbs you about this man and his work, and how it is, exactly, that you find inspiration for your writing here. I'm teaching a so-called "Green Ink" class to grad students this spring and I'm interested in how nature and/or depictions of nature affect us.
Jan:
I will have to get over tot he DIA to see their Heade hummingbird(s).
Anyway, I very much like the hummingbird paintings, and I also like the fact that Heade "failed" in his project--he never did get the hummingbird book published. It seems like a poignant story; one with a lot of poetic possibilities. It is also useful that there isn't a lot known about his daily life--therefore, there are many possibilities for a writer to imagine (and construct) a fictional account of his life.
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Jan:
And I am also a bit tired of "examining my own experience"!
Thanks, Greg, for these words -- both about my bout of weary aphasia and about your hummingbird guy.
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