The World to Come

by David Keplinger

“No one writes prose poems like David Keplinger. He is one of a kind. Sui generis. But what does it mean? For me, it means that his imagination walks hand in hand with his sentences’ music. He has an amazing sense of subtext—what is unsaid, in these pages, is perhaps even more important than what is said. He is a poet who takes the likes of Cortázar, Calvino, and company and makes them waltz, not because he borrows from them but because he extends the conversation, brings it into our moment. Sui generis, indeed.”
— Ilya Kaminsky

Genres: Poetry

92 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2021

Reviews

[Tom Romig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intense, imaginative, and supple, the poems in this heady collection work together to create a vision of inner worlds past and present. The tension between unrestrained possibilities and unresolved lingering hurts reflects the ambivalence of human existence.

[Brian Brogan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A paragraph's micro fiction, a surreal poetic narrative that keeps one stimulated inside a diorama. Life's otherness, a shapeshifting daydream.