Keith Waldrop: Several Gravities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979956218 ISBN 13: 9780979956218

Publisher: Siglio, 2009

Synopsis

Over nearly four decades, National Book Award winner Keith Waldrop has amassed a huge body of lyrical collage work alongside his acclaimed oeuvre of poetry, fiction and translation. Waldrop's collages express quiet tensions and ghostly impressions in a few snips of the scissors. Several Gravities presents a selection of these radiant collages and includes a previously unpublished serial poem and essay by Waldrop.

About this title

About the Author:

Keith Waldrop is author of numerous collections of poetry and is the translator of The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes, as well as works by Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach and Jean Grosjean. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and DAAD (Berlin). His titles include HEGEL'S FAMILY, THE OPPOSITE OF LETTING THE MIND WANDER: SELECTED POEMS AND A FEW SONGS, SHIPWRECK IN HAVEN: TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES, The Balustrade, Light While There is Light, THE LOCALITY PRINCIPLE, ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE and HAUNT. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Award: for his first book of poetry, A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan, 1968); and his most recent, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press, 2009), which won. With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University.

Review:

...And in April, Siglio Press, the indie in Los Angeles that last year published Joe Brainard's The Nancy Book, released the equally beautiful and exquisitely designed Several Gravities, a collection of Waldrop's collages. In an essay in that book, the volume's editor, Robert Seydel, describes the seventy-seven-year-old artist-poet-publisher-translator as: that rare figure, a poet's poet, inherently graceful in his utterance, in both poetry and prose, and somewhat hermetic, sage-like, very beautiful in his hesitations and quiet delivery of both self and poem. The kind of writer, in other words, who gets swept along in a current of popular interest and whose work, thankfully, fulfills the promise. --Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers

About this edition

• Publisher: Siglio
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0979956218
• ISBN 13: 9780979956218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Seydel Robert