Keith Waldrop

Keith Waldrop

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".

elected Works

Poetry

* "Shipwreck In Haven" (Awede, 1989)
* "The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander" (Lost Roads, 1990)
* "The Locality Principle" (Avec, 1995)
* "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)
* "Seriamis 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, 2005)

Prose

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

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

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1575 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"
* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/waldropk/index.html Keith Waldrop Page at the Electronic Poetry Center] extensive links to bibliography, biography, essays, reviews, etc.


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