Keith Waldrop
Encyclopedia
Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud
, Anne-Marie Albiach
, and Edmond Jabès
, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire
's Les Fleurs du Mal
(2006).
With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop
, he co-edits Burning Deck Press
. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island
, and teaches at Brown University
. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres
.
Waldrop won the 2009 National Book Award for poetry
for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.
Claude Royet-Journoud
Claude Royet-Journoud is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris .-Overview:Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: Le Renversement, La Notion d'Obstacle, Les Objets contiennent l'infini, and Les Natures indivisibles...
, Anne-Marie Albiach
Anne-Marie Albiach
Anne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...
, and Edmond Jabès
Edmond Jabes
----Edmond Jabès was a Jewish writer and poet, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II.- Life :...
, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
's Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 , it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements...
(2006).
With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...
, he co-edits Burning Deck Press
Burning Deck Press
Burning Deck is a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961.-Overview:...
. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
, and teaches at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...
.
Waldrop won the 2009 National Book Award for poetry
National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...
for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.
Poetry
- A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan Press, 1968)
- The Garden of Effort (Burning Deck, 1975)
- Shipwreck In Haven (Awede, 1989)
- The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander (Lost Roads, 1990)
- The Locality Principle (Avec, 1995)
- Analogies of Escape (Burning Deck, 1997)
- The Silhouette of the Bridge (Memory Stand-Ins) (Avec, 1997)
- Stone Angels (Instress, 1997)
- Well Well Reality (Collaborations with Rosmarie Waldrop) (The Post-Apollo Press, 1998)
- Haunt (Instance, 2000)
- Semiramis If I Remember (Avec, 2001)
- The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2003)
- The Real Subject: queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems (Omnidawn Publishing, 2005)
- Several Gravities (Siglio, 2009)
- Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009)
- The Space of Half an Hour (Burning Deck, 1983)
Prose
- Hegel's Family (Station Hill, 1989)
- Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993)
Translations
- The Flowers of Evil by Charles BaudelaireCharles BaudelaireCharles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
(Wesleyan, 2006) - Figured Image by Anne-Marie AlbiachAnne-Marie AlbiachAnne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...
(The Post-Apollo Press, 2006) - The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques RoubaudJacques RoubaudJacques Roubaud is a French poet and mathematician.Jacques Roubaud is a professor of poetry at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and he was a professor of Mathematics at University of Paris X...
(tr. with Rosmarie WaldropRosmarie WaldropRosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...
) (Dalkey Archive, 2006) - Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-JournoudClaude Royet-JournoudClaude Royet-Journoud is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris .-Overview:Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: Le Renversement, La Notion d'Obstacle, Les Objets contiennent l'infini, and Les Natures indivisibles...
(Fence, 2006) - Another Kind of Tenderness by Xue Di with Forrest GanderForrest GanderForrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...
(Litmus, 2004) - Close Quote by Marie Borel (Burning DeckBurning Deck PressBurning Deck is a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961.-Overview:...
, 2003) - Mental Ground by Esther Tellermann (Burning Deck, 2002)
- The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes (Station Hill Press, 1988)
External links
- Exhibit at the Academy of American Poets includes links to some poems by Keith Waldrop including "Invitation to the Voyage", "Light Travels", "Posthumous Remorse Whir"
- Keith Waldrop Page at the Electronic Poetry Center extensive links to bibliography, biography, essays, reviews, etc.
- On Collage: from an interview with Keith Waldrop conducted by Peter GizziPeter GizziPeter Gizzi is an award-winning American poet and renowned editor of the American poet Jack Spicer. He attended Brown University, New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.-Life and career:...
- On the Art of Keith Waldrop by Robert Seydel (excerpt)
- The National Book Foundation interview with Keith Waldrop conducted by Craig Morgan Teicher