{"product_id":"another-city-poems-paperback","title":"Another City: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Keplinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE UNT RILKE PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does it feel to experience another city? To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd? To attempt to be heard above the din?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems of \u003cem\u003eAnother City\u003c\/em\u003e travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociation and belonging. From experiences defined by an urban landscape--a thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagen--to the streets themselves, where \"an alley was a comma in the agony's grammar,\" in David Keplinger's hands startling images collide and mingle like bodies on a busy thoroughfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet \u003cem\u003eAnother City\u003c\/em\u003e deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality. In these poems, our entry into the world is when \"the wound, called loneliness, \/ opens,\" and our voyage out of it is through a foreign but not entirely unfamiliar constellations of cities: Cherbourg, Manila, Port-au-Prince.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a rich portrait of the seemingly incommunicable expanses between people, places, and ideas--and the ability of a poem to transcend the void. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Keplinger\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five volumes of poetry. He has won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, the Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and the Colorado Book Award, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from the DC, Danish, and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at American University in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693220827199,"sku":"9781571314864","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a13e4d95ff4e916c68162776aff8f219.webp?v=1764998182","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/another-city-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}