What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916 - Softcover

9780967702117: What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
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Poetry. History. Travel. Blending historical, scientific, and literary scholarship with an impressive range of poetic forms, Seattle poet Melinda Mueller re-creates one of the most astounding survival stories. 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. Both passionate and precise, this is a moving and powerful telling of one of the last century's greatest voyages. The ice has found a worthy poet -- Andrea Barrett. The whole poem is gripping to the end -- Booklist (starred review).

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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.
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The second expedition Sir Ernest Shackleton led to Antarctica was undertaken in a ship called Endurance . The name was prophetic, for after it became trapped in ice in January--the middle of the southern summer--the explorers had to embark over ice floes, ocean, and finally ice-clad mountains to save their lives. They left the ship as the ice began to shatter it in late October 1915. By foot and lifeboats, they reached wind-scoured Elephant Island in April 1916. From there, Shackleton and five others sailed for a whaling camp on South Georgia Island. On August 29, 1916, deep in the antarctic winter, Shackleton rescued the men on Elephant Island. All had endured. The story has been told often, first by Shackleton's South (1919), but never before in verse, though its astonishing heroism is the stuff of epics, such as the Odyssey . Mueller does the job brilliantly, alternating chapters of blank verse narration and monologues in the voices of several of the men, which she sets in metrical forms specific to their speakers. Thanks to Mueller's knack for putting direct speech and extracts from expedition members' testimonies into verse, the whole poem is gripping to the last page. Ray Olson
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