As close as we are to the election, I have decided to forgo further crankiness and instead give you Jacqueline Du Pre. After eight years of the Bush administration, six years of war, Hurricane Katrina, a financial meltdown and the endless campaign, think of it as a public service announcement.
A wise move, Greg - music soothes the troubled breast - it is in the lap of the gods now and there is little you can do about it. I hope the result is the right one.
Thanks for this, Greg! I am of course somewhat prejudiced, having written a long poem in Jacqueline du Pre's voice. It doesn't get any better than this music!
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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A wise move, Greg - music soothes the troubled breast - it is in the lap of the gods now and there is little you can do about it. I hope the result is the right one.
Nice piece Greg. Thanks.
Thanks for this, Greg! I am of course somewhat prejudiced, having written a long poem in Jacqueline du Pre's voice. It doesn't get any better than this music!
Here's what I'll be listening to on election day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1YKOk9QA8U&feature=related
I'd rather be in Africa
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