On David Keplinger's poetry:

“Ice is alchemical, combining seemingly disparate elements to produce something new and unexpected. This is true of individual poems and of the collection as a whole, thanks to Keplinger’s curation: here are exhumed animals from the Pleistocene, here is a tank-sized facsimile of a beach, here is Emily Dickinson’s piano. Emergent properties arise from each of these pieces and from the book itself, representing more than the sum of the poems’ parts. What the reader brings to the experience is, of course, the final ingredient; but Keplinger’s skill provides both the spark and the space to facilitate transformation.” 
—Adroit Journal

“Imagine The Inferno reconfigured 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. And imagine that the guide’s voice has not yet outgrown or outworn the point of view, precocious and remarkably well read and almost always surprising, of a stranger in a stranger adult land whose consequences and mortalities can just be held at a distance, sympathetic or amused, as Dante’s mortal vision keeps the damned in their place…What’s consistent is the sustained invention of a tinkerer who takes his materials (so many of them fragile, easily discarded or mislaid) to heart even as he finds his humor, his consolation in the spirited play of their arrangements.”
—The Antioch Review

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