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David Keplinger
On Overwhelm: What Am I To Do But Know These Things?
John Milton’s “Sonnet 19: When I consider how my life is spent,” written 350 years ago, captures for me the overwhelm...
David Keplinger is the author of several books of poetry, including GREAT POND (Milkweed Editions, 2028), ICE (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and ANOTHER CITY (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which won the UNT Rilke Prize. In 2025, he was the winner of The Rome Prize in Literature.