The Long Answer New & Selected Poems

Selected from five books highlighting more than twenty years of work, The Long Answer marks the best of David Keplinger's engagement with the lyric form from his first collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the T.S. Eliot Prize, to his most recent, winner of the Rilke Prize in 2019. The collection also features over thirty pages of new material. Influenced by the French prose poet Max Jacob as well as by earlier voices--from Rilke, the French symbolists, William Blake, Dante, the medieval co...