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Title

A path between houses / Greg Rappleye.

Author

Rappleye, Greg.

Publication

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

xii, 93 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "These are tough-minded poems about loss, and what comes afterwards - the difficult work of rebuilding a life. Greg Rappleye gathers his material across a vast American landscape, from the Florida Keys through the Nevada Desert to the California Coast, rocketing around the country with some strange friends - Odysseus, William Faulkner, Frank Sinatra, and private eye Jim Rockford.
• Rappleye is not afraid to implicate the self, building a heroic persona in the classic sense - a person in whom the flaws are as celebrated as the occasional triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Brittingham prize in poetry

Uniform Title

Brittingham prize in poetry (Series)

Contents

Homer, Faulkner, Noir -- Mercywood -- Wild Irish: 1959 -- Thousand Dollar Days -- Broken Neck -- Collar Cut -- Setting Nets Near Cypremort Point -- Terrible -- Porpoise -- My Communist Years -- At the Ice Dock -- From The Vegas Cantos -- Walkaway -- At Forty-Seven Days -- The Dynamo Patents -- A Path Between Houses -- Cause -- The Assistant Prosecutor's Story -- Dusk -- Wanted: Japanese Sword -- Bone Island in Summer -- Morning at The Artist's House, Key West -- Clearwater -- After Three-and-a-Half Years with Calypso, Odysseus Says, To Hell with It, I'm Not Going Home -- Women in Love -- Walking Toward the Village -- The Far-Away Rivers -- Cat Descending a Staircase -- A Recipe in Which My Ex-Wife No Longer Appears -- Rockford in Malibu -- Domestic Architecture -- Fidelity -- Hornets' Nest -- Comet -- During National Poetry Month -- Mythe -- Charon in August -- Calling the Code -- Age of Consent -- Last Walk with Sinatra's Dog.

ISBN

• 0299170101 (alk. paper)
• 0299170144 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00010299

OCLC

• ocm44578731
• SCSB-4017799

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries