The Prayers of Others (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
. . . Keplinger presents a newDivine Comedy, a fierce, erotic apocalypse in which the dead, the lost, the sundered reach for the heavens only others can provide. --Jake Adam YorkImagineThe Infernoreconfigured as a cross between one of Joseph Cornell's boxes and a Rube Goldberg drawing: an infernal machine designed to produce the uncomfortable pleasures of wit's disjunctions, gallows humor, wry nostalgias . . . --The Antioch Review, Jordan SmithAt their best, [Keplinger's poems] achieve a clarity akin to that of photographs take on high contrast film. Keplinger's exacting attention to detail prospers in the prose poem, benefiting from the self-contained quality of the form. --American Book Review, Sarah J. Gardner