Research Catalog

Title

Figured dark : poems / by Greg Rappleye.

Author

Rappleye, Greg.

Publication

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 88 pages; 22 cm

Contents

In the Great Field at Mount Holyoke, under a Dome of Stars -- Caller, What is Your Question? -- Rainy Afternoon at the Gotham Book Mart -- Not that Happiness -- Black Dog -- Self-portrait, with Epiphany to Come -- For the Lord G-d Bird, No Longer Extinct -- At the Museum of Whiskey History -- My Mother Thinks She's Peggy Lee -- Gentians -- Near Gatlinburg -- After the Divorce -- After an Illustration by Rockwell Kent for Moby Dick, in Which a Whale Takes a Dory in its Maw, and Heads for the Bottom of the Sea -- Lost-Love Ghazals -- Feeder -- Archie Babcock Explains the Accident to John Berryman's Biographer -- Exile Valise -- Sail On, Sailor -- Making a Path to the Blackberries -- Figured Dark -- Memories of Pittsburgh and Stern -- American Kestrel -- Blue Angels -- Mason's Kitchenettes -- The Fish Lamp on the Cover of Coastal Living Magazine -- Glaucoma -- In Ambient Light -- Obbligato -- Letter to M., from Swannanoa -- Lilacs, for Instance -- Biopsy -- After the Diagnosis -- Swimming at Night -- Elegy for Light and Balance -- The Body, Burning -- Hay Devil -- Discontinuous Narrative -- Letter to the Chairwoman of the Reunion Committee -- Dancing with the Crack Whores, at the Homeless Shelter Run by My Wife -- Were We Speaking, Had You Asked -- Letter to Robert in Gearhart -- Descent -- Carolina Woodpecker -- At 48, Walking My Baby Past the Voodoo Lounge -- Blackbirds -- The Salt Cairn -- Lepidopterist -- On a Visit to His Namesake City, St. Paul Walks Six Blocks of Goodrich Avenue.

ISBN

• 9781557288523 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1557288526 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007024796

OCLC

• 144548401
• ocn144548401
• SCSB-5370234

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries