Stan Getz: The Best of the Verve Years, Vol. 1
There is nothing better on a rainy Sunday afternoon in March than writing to the music of Stan Getz.
posted by greg rappleye at 12:39 PM
Sunday, March 08, 2009
There is nothing better on a rainy Sunday afternoon in March than writing to the music of Stan Getz.
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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9 Comments:
sorry Greg, but I find it impossible to write if there is music on - I like to write in the silence of my study -
Well, I've got Bix Beiderbecke on here, but I know what you mean.
I always have music on when I write. I wouldn't say that I "have" to have it, but it helps me get into the mood. I like to choose music that will reflect the mood of the piece I'm working on.
My primary reason for listening to music as I write is for sound deadening. I live in a small house––with two little kids, three dogs, two cats, etc., and a washing machine and dryer located not eight feet from my computer.
Without the music on low as a sort of "white noise," I would be in trouble––on weekends, in particular, when I write while everyone else is awake.
String quartets and quintets are other favorites.
Hey Greg,
I deleted the blog. I really liked doing it, but I had a lot of seriously senitive readers, and I felt like I couldn't post stuff I wanted to. I got tired of a few posters with snobby artsy-fartsy attitudes. Perhaps I deleted out of emotion...but I am looking for some kind of creative outlet now that I don't have it. Maybe I'll start a new blog...
Talia:
Well, for the record, I REALLY miss your blog!
Be well!
Unfortunately, my experience has been that a press that's "interested" in publishing your next book is not necessarily the same as a press that will publish it. So I'm in the same boat. Happy rowing!
Also unfortunately, I did not post my comment on the post on which I was commenting! I'm losing it!
I am listening to The Bossa Nova Years (a double CD set on Verve). I agree. GC
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