W. B. Keckler

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W. B. Keckler (born 1966) is an American poet and translator.

He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and is widely published in America and the United Kingdom. Books include Sanskrit of the Body (2002, Viking Penguin), which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series), and Ants Dissolve in Moonlight (1995, Fugue State Press). He is translator of Andre Malraux's early works Royaume-Farfelu and Lunes en Papier, published as The Kingdom of Farfelu, With Paper Moons (2005, Fugue State Press). Over 200 pages of Keckler's poetry can be found exclusively online.

Keckler's poetry characteristically views nature as autonomous from the humanly-constructed world and attempts to chart the rhythms of this autonomy.