{"product_id":"ice-poems-paperback-1","title":"Ice: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Keplinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger's \u003ci\u003eIce\u003c\/i\u003e indexes the findings from memory's slow melt--stories and faces we've forgotten, bones hidden in frost.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I am asking how much more \/ I have to learn from this,\" Keplinger writes. \"You are asking that same question.\" In these poems, he turns to our predecessors for guidance in picking apart the forces that govern modernity--masculinity, power, knowledge, conquest. Cryptic visitants arrive in the form of Gilgamesh, \"searching for a way to stay in pain forever\"; a grandmother mending socks, \"her face in the dark unchanging\"; Emily Dickinson, lingering at her window; a lion cub, asleep in ice for millennia.With each comes a critique of the Anthropocene, our drive to possess the unpossessable. With each comes also the discovery of what--and who--we've harmed in the discovering. Ice shelves collapse. Climate change melts layers of permafrost to reveal a severed wolf's head. A pair of grease-smudged reading glasses calls up a mother's phantom. \"I am sorry \/ for the parts you gave me \/ that I've misshapen,\" Keplinger writes.So is there \"a point to all this singing\"? Our ancestors cannot answer. The wolf's head can't, either. But sometimes, \"out of the snow of confusion,\" \u003ci\u003esomething \u003c\/i\u003eanswers, \"saying gorgeous things like yes.\" And the flowers \"open up \/ their small green trumpets anyway.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Keplinger \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eIce\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnother City\u003c\/i\u003e. His collections of poems also include \u003ci\u003eThe Most Natural Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Prayers of Others\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Clearing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Inside. \u003c\/i\u003eHis translations include Carsten René Nielsen's \u003ci\u003eWorld Cut Out with Crooked Scissors\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHouse Inspections\u003c\/i\u003e, a Lannan Translations Selection; his most recent translation is Jan Wagner's \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Topiary\u003c\/i\u003e. Keplinger's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Writer's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been translated and included in anthologies in China, Germany, Denmark, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere. The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Keplinger has received support from the Soros Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Danish Arts Foundation. He has also received the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Colorado Book Award, the Cavafy Prize from \u003ci\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Erksine J. Poetry Prize from \u003ci\u003eSmartish Pace\u003c\/i\u003e. Keplinger directs the MFA program at American University in Washington, DC.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342384382201,"sku":"9781639550166","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/R3FjS01IM24xSWtjSzBlNXB3amxjdz09_8f8b3d1a-b7c5-4f75-99a6-633d6da99d87.webp?v=1769707934","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ice-poems-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}