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What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Winner:ALA Notable Book -Poetry (2002)
Blending historical, scientific, and literary scholarship with an impressive range of poetic forms, Melinda Mueller masterfully brings us the legendary tale of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. What the Ice Gets is an adventure story, a requiem, and a love poem written to twenty-eight heroes and the mythic landscape they set out to explore but that instead explored them.
Book Details
- Publisher: Van West & Company
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 2000
- Pages: 95
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.02in - 5.99in - 0.35in - 0.42lb
- EAN: 9780967702117
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
MELINDA MUELLER has published three previous collections of poetry. Her poems have been included in the Pushcart Prize XX and Best American Poetry 1990 anthologies and many literary journals. Born in Helena, Montana, she now lives in Seattle, where she teaches high school biology at Seattle Academy.
Praise for this book
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." . . This is the poem as survival thriller, impossible to put down."--Booklist
. . . This is the poem as survival thriller, impossible to put down.-- "Booklist"