David Keplinger Biography
David Keplinger is the author of three books: The Prayers of Others (2006), winner of the 2007 Colorado Book Award, and The Clearing (2005), both from New Issues Poetry & Prose, as well as The Rose Inside: Poems (Truman State University Press, 1999), chosen by Mary Oliver for the T.S. Eliot Prize of that press. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is also the author of World Cut with Crooked Scissors (New Issues, 2007), which he co-translated with Danish poet Carsten Rene Nielsen. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Florida Review, AGNI, Nimrod, and Minnesota Review. He currently teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.
Along the fringe of two known worlds
That make the field, the prison yard,
Behind the house my mother and her sisters
...
Above the cellars
Lined with preserves,
In a foreign year,
Its calendar girls
...
He didn't want the EKG. He didn't want
To know. But the nurse attached
Its greasy patches to his chest to read.
...
Like an enormous leech the pancreas lies
with its head tucked into the duodenum,
upside down, the tail outstretched over it,
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