Keith Waldrop (born December 11,

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, in

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) is an American poet, translator, and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and

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, among others. One such translation is

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's '' Les Fleurs du Mal'' (2006). He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''.

Personal life

Waldrop started his education at Kansas State Teachers College, studying to be a doctor. However, in 1953, he was drafted into the United States Army and stationed in West Germany, where he met his wife Rosmarie Waldrop.

Career

Waldrop received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan in 1964 and four years later began teaching at

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(1968). With Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits

Burning Deck Press Burning Deck was 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 and closed in 2017. Overview Although the Waldrops initially promot ...

. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a professor emeritus at Brown in 2011. The French government has named him '' Chevalier des arts et des lettres''.

Awards and honors

*'' Chevalier des arts et des lettres'' by the French government. *2009 National Book Award for Poetry for ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. *2014 Best Translated Book Award, Poetry, one of two runners-up for ''Four Elemental Bodies'' by Claude Royet-Journoud, translated from the French.

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"National Book Awards – 2009"
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
(With acceptance speech, interview, and other material; and essay by Ross Gay from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) * ''The Space of Half an Hour'' (Burning Deck, 1983) * ''The Not Forever nventions' (Omnidawn, 2013) * ''Selected Poems'' (Omnidawn, 2016)

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

(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) * ''L’état des métamorphoses'' by Tita Reut with

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(Art inprogress, 2005) * ''Another Kind of Tenderness'' by Xue Di with Forrest Gander (Litmus, 2004) * ''Close Quote'' by Marie Borel (

Burning Deck Burning Deck was 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 and closed in 2017. Overview Although the Waldrops initially promot ...

, 2003) * ''Mental Ground'' by Esther Tellermann (Burning Deck, 2002) * ''The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes'' (Station Hill Press, 1988) * ''The notion of obstacle'' by Claude Royet-Journoud (Awede, 1985)

References

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"

extensive links to bibliography, biography, essays, reviews, etc.

conducted by Peter Gizzi
On the Art of Keith Waldrop
by Robert Seydel (excerpt)

by poet and novelist Ben Lerner
The National Book Foundation interview with Keith Waldrop
conducted by Craig Morgan Teicher {{DEFAULTSORT:Waldrop, Keith Living people 1932 births Poets from Kansas American book publishers (people) University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni People from Emporia, Kansas National Book Award winners Brown University alumni