David Keplinger is the author of nine collections of poetry—including Another City, which was awarded the UNT Rilke Prize, and Ice—and six volumes of literary translation. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Colorado Book Award, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Minds on Fire Award, the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, among other honors. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Books by David Keplinger
“Luminous… Wisp transforms ordinary objects, animals, landscapes, and historical figures into portals of reflection.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
A dual-language collection examining impermanence as the source of beauty from one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets writing in German.
Ice indexes the findings from memory’s slow melt—stories and faces we’ve forgotten, bones hidden in frost.
This collection 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.
Books translated by David Keplinger
One of the most important contemporary poets working in German makes his American debut in this compact, light-footed, and curious dual-language collection.
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