Figured Dark

"Figured Dark is a lovely book, heart-stopping, at moments, for its directness. The poems feature a conversational and lyrical plainness. Greg Rappleye fires and tempers metaphor, talk, cultural and literary allusion, and emotion so skillfully that readers can look through to the heart of the matter--the odd details of living and what goodness remains after death's insinuations. 'What does the body want?/To be a crucible says the body, ' the poet writes. Figured Dark is crucible."Rappleye, Greg is the author of 'Figured Dark', published 2007 under ISBN 9781557288523 and ISBN 1557288526.