Keith Waldrop

 

Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) 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 is professor emeritus 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.

Selected works

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) —winner of the National Book Award
• The Space of Half an Hour (Burning Deck, 1983)

Prose

• Hegel's Family (Station Hill, 1989)
• Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon, 1993)

Visual Art

• Several Gravities (Siglio Press, 2009)

Translations

• The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Wesleyan, 2006)
• Figured Image by Anne-Marie Albiach (The Post-Apollo Press, 2006)
• The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud (tr. with Rosmarie Waldrop) (Dalkey Archive, 2006)
• Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-Journoud (Fence, 2006)
• Another Kind of Tenderness by Xue Di with Forrest Gander (Litmus, 2004)
• Close Quote by Marie Borel (Burning Deck, 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 Gizzi
• On the Art of Keith Waldrop by Robert Seydel (excerpt)
• The National Book Foundation interview with Keith Waldrop conducted by Craig Morgan Teicher