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| In the ice house |
- In the ice house (Red Hen Press, 2011). Winner of the 2009 To the Lighthouse poetry prize from the A Room of Her Own Foundation. Some poems from In the ice house were recently featured at Sundress Publications's "Best Dressed" list, and you can read them online here, here, here, and here. Click here to purchase from Red Hen, or support women writers and buy from the AROHO store! In the ice house is also available from Powell's and Amazon.com.
The Blurbs:
- The precise, crystalline lyrics of Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house reveal that wonder exists everywhere in the habits and habitations of domestic space. There is no beauty so small, so vernacular that it escapes the illumined attention of this gifted poet. These are poems to read the world by. -Peter Gizzi
- We find ourselves wandering deep, deep into the world in this collection of sharp, startling poems--poems that often have a swerve at the end, sending us to the unexpected. The birds return, and the trees, and the ice, always the ice, but each time, new piercing details come into view. Though spare on the page, these pieces radiate a wealth born of Genevieve Kaplan's rare and invaluable view of the world. -Cole Swenson
Reviews:
"The chill in the air, as Kaplan describes it, come out of the page.... It is a beautiful marvel of nature at its coldest, through ice storms and frozen gardens, while also subtly following the birds, perhaps the true protagonists of this collection, who 'Rise before the sun, rise with / the sun, constantly,'" noted in the October 2011 Book List for Hey Small Press!, here.
In the ice house was selected as a winter poetry "Top Pick" by the Library Journal Blog, here. The book, they say, "cuts to the bone to describe a domestic everydayness that’s relentlessly undermined."
Midwest Book Review calls In the ice house "a core addition to any modern poetry collection," here.
"[B]oth jarring and lovely,...the poems reflect in their construction the very nature of the ice storm that forms the core of the collection's aesthetic," explains H.K. Rainey at the Kelsey Street Press blog, here.
"This book is a world one not only reads but visits, so palpable is its landscape. Even its air is different--" - Eileen Tabios in Galatea Resurrects, here.
CHAPBOOKS
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| travelogue |
- travelogue (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). A single long poem inspired by and responding to a trip to attend Bloomsday events in Dublin, Ireland. Available from the publisher here.
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| In an aviary |
- In an aviary (Grey Book Press, 2016). 18 poems inspired by the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the Botanical Gardens at The Huntington, the Los Angeles County Arboretum, and Mina Loy's prose poem "Ladies in an Aviary." Read a little about my process here, and order In an aviary from the publishers here.
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| settings for these scenes |
- settings for these scenes (Convulsive Editions, 2013). A series of erasures from a single paragraph of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Read an excerpt at The Quotidian Bee here. More about the project here, and you can order the chapbook from the publishers here.
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| We've hardly slept or At least not all at once |
- We’ve hardly slept or At least not all at once (Gold Wake Press, 2009). A limited-edition electronic chapbook (by which I mean you've missed your chance to read it--it's no longer viewable online).
EDITIONS
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| The Loudest Voice, vol. 1 |
- The Loudest Voice (Loudest Voice Books/Figueroa Press, 2010). Amaranth Borsuk, Bryan Hurt, and Genevieve Kaplan, eds. An anthology featuring work from poets and fiction writers who participated in The Loudest Voice reading series in Los Angeles's Chinatown between 2006-2010. Purchase from the USC Bookstore here.
