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    In the ice house
    In the ice house
    In the ice house
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    In the ice house

    By Genevieve Kaplan

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    Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling “at least the beginnings of some disaster” taking place in a landscape that “had no symmetry.” Deftly channeling poets like Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery, as well as invoking Kaplan’s own distinct poetic sensibility, these poems reveal an atmospheric and wondrous world filled with odd and compelling images. Readers confront the menace of the ordinary, “the whale-faced spout of the drainpipe, the cluck / of the chicken-bird” and how “the light attacks / the window and the stress of the shining / does not ease.” The poet’s insistent evocation of elemental images—the birds, the ice, the water—becomes almost incantatory, as the speaker seeks escape from “the frantic outside” she’s trapped within. Kaplan’s sky “has the depth / of an ocean,” and this book deeply articulates how “silence is the only word that can replace loss.” Moving artfully between internal desires and incisive observations of the external, these stunning poems radiate with both heat and ice.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Hen Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781597091756
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      In the ice house - Genevieve Kaplan

      In the ice house

      In the ice house

      poems by

      Genevieve Kaplan

       Red Hen Press | Pasadena, California 

      In the ice house

      Copyright © 2011 by Genevieve Kaplan

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.

      Book design and layout by Kathrine Davidson

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Kaplan, Genevieve.

      In the ice house : poems / by Genevieve Kaplan. —1st ed.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-59709-462-7

      I. Title.

      PS3611.A649I5 2011

      811’.6—dc22

      2011004171

      The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs partially support Red Hen Press.

      Published by Red Hen Press

      www.redhen.org

      First Edition

      Acknowledgements

      Some of these poems were first published in the following journals and anthologies: Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Dorado, Front Porch,The Loudest Voice: Volume 1, Mrs. Maybe, The Northwest Review, The One Three Eight, West Wind Review, Word for/Word, and Zoland Poetry. My sincere thanks to the editors.

      The publication of this book was made possible by A Room of Her Own Foundation’s To the

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