This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences—"Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius"—in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract, experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the French poet Raymond Queneau and the American painter Robert Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium.

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Waldrop, Keith

History & Criticism

University of California Press

This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences―"Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius"―in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract, experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the French poet Raymond Queneau and the American painter Robert Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium.

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (New California Poetry) (Volume 27)

Vivid elements evoke remembered scenes or imagined constructions from history, dream or chance. Unlikely characters show up. A 15th century Dutch painter walks the streets of Providence; a young girl goes to sleep in a dark room; Charlemagne appears in a mythic terrain of sheer language. This is a distinctive poet’s prose, precise and congenial, capturing improbable moments and spinning the mind into new realms of possibility.

HEGEL'S FAMILY

Literary

Station Hill Press

Poetry. " All of Waldrop's work evokes the conflict between activity and passivity, doing and being, poetry as discovery and poetry as invention. In fact, reading Waldrop gives the reader two impressions, often in rapid succession: that of participating in a desperate search for a lost and possibly non-existent item; and that of sitting still, trying to be so quiet a tiny voice will reach one from a distance. The energy in these poems goes into the effort of thought, of meditation, not into the lines. Like Wallace Stevens in his early long poems (and like any phenomenologist) Waldrop strips perceptions of accretions so that they can be seen in their first light, without falsification. The effect is in both cases a poem that is smooth flowing on the surface but dense with effort and energy underneath" - Janet McCann, Parnassus: Poetry in Review.

The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander: Selected Poems and a Few Songs (Lost Roads, No. 36)

Poetry

Lost Roads Publishers

The Space of Half an Hour

Burning Deck Books

Burning Deck Press

Shipwreck in Haven: Transcendental Studies

Small Pr Distribution

Well Well Reality

Waldrop, Rosmarie

Post Apollo Pr

Potential Random

Paradigm Press

Poetry. Keith Waldrop's new book continues and deepens the examination of meaning, connotation, denotation, and meaninglessness implicit in his work. Many titles by this major poet, translator, and editor continue to be available from SPD: ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE, LOCALITY PRINCIPLE, THE EIGHTH DAY, and others. Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop edit Burning Deck in Providence, Rhode Island.

Haunt

Instance Press

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