About the Author:

Melinda Mueller was born in Helena, Montana. She earned a degree in Botany at the University of Washington and a Masters in Biology at Central Washington. Mueller’s most recent poetry collection, Mary’s Dust, was published by Entre Rios Books in 2018, and was a 2018 Washington State Book Award finalist. The After (a chapbook) was released by Entre Rios Books in October 2017. What the Ice Gets: Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916 (2000, Van West & Company) received a 2001 Washington State Book Award and the American Library Notable Books Award for Poetry, in 2002. Melinda is on the science faculty at Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences.

About the Book:

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

“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." (Written by Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and other novels.)

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