
The Long Answer
David Keplinger(Author)
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-62288-308-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Long Answer gleans from David Keplinger's five previous poetry collections, covering two decades of his engagement with the lyric narrative. Through echoes of Dickinson, Rimbaud, William Blake, and the French prose poet Max Jacob, as well as a host of other European and American voices, this volume maps the ongoing 'long answer' to the poet's individual inquiries about family, influence, and originality while at the same time tapping the source and substance of a more far-flung, philosophical problem. How is one life both distinct from and the sum of lives that came before? How does one disentangle oneself from the illusion of separateness? Culling together the best work from those previous years, and with nearly forty new pages of material, The Long Answer seeks a question, in Keplinger's title poem, "so old, no one remembers/ what was asked for/in the first place,/and which leaves us . . . /with only each other." His work, here, and historically, seeks less to alter thinking than to undrape it, where poetry can be the means of remembering what we are.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62288-308-0 (9781622883080)
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David Keplinger has won several awards and honors for his work, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Colorado Book Award, the Cavafy Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize for his latest book, Another City. He lives in Washington D.C. and teaches at American University.