Winner of the 2000 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Selected by Alicia OstrikerThese 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.

Path Between Houses (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Rappleye, Greg

Poetry

University of Wisconsin Press

A Path Between Houses (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)

Holding down the earth: Poems

SkyBooks

Poetry. Art. "Greg Rappleye is a poet of exquisite, lush language, exacting and precise in description, inventive in the re-creation of entire worlds. In this intoxicating and revelatory journey through the Brazilian rain forests of the 19th century, he populates the canvas of his poems with not only the flora and fauna of that time and place, but with the voice and inimitable perspective of its subject: Martin Johnson Heade, an American painter obsessed with the otherworldly appearance and flight of hummingbirds. As Rappleye's imagined Heade confesses, '[I] walk for days to find their tiny hearts / beating in the jungle dark.' Yet for all its meticulous research, the heart of this book is a meditation on connection, on what we willingly give our lives over to. As the poet asks, 'What should we save- / a fallen world, or the life we are finally given to live?'"--Todd Davis

Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds

Dos Madres Press

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