Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 6:53 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.
7 Comments:
Good find! He is one of the best, he was on Sesame Street, like the Diz, Wynton, and Buddy Rich!
He has a summer place here and plays at Tanglewood every year.
After his performance, he often just hangs out. I met him that way. He is a nice guy.
With what his cello is worth, he probably should have bought the plane to transport it, not just a seat!
That is one of the most beautiful recordings I own. Brilliant stuff.
I never saw him on a plane, but he was a student at Harvard when my sister was there! :-)
The best absolutely. He is incredible, close to Glenn Gould in his understanding of counterpoint. Close.
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I like Yo Yo Ma, but for me I still love Rostopovich playing these cello pieces. Here is a poor Youtube example, but even then I find it gorgeous. I have the CD you mention as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E
Yes, it is much cheaper to play the flute.
I have that CD too. Isn't it gorgeous music? Yo-Yo Ma is coming here to Bloomington next year. I think tickets are already on sale, but I can't afford one yet -- but I will go one way or another!
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